Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] tcp: remove per-destination timestamp cache

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:59:01 -0700

> On Wed, 2017-03-15 at 15:40 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil.kdev@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:30:45 -0400
>> 
>> > Note that this cache was already broken for caching timestamps of
>> > multiple machines behind a NAT sharing the same address.
>> 
>> That's the documented, well established, limitation of time-wait
>> recycling.
>> 
>> People who enable it, need to consider this issue.
>> 
>> This limitation of the feature does not give us a reason to break the
>> feature even further as a matter of convenience, or to remove it
>> altogether for the same reason.
>> 
>> Please, instead, fix the bug that was introduced.
>> 
>> Thank you.
> 
> You mean revert Florian nice patches ?
> 
> This would kill timestamps randomization, and thus prevent some
> organizations to turn TCP timestamps on.
> 
> TCP timestamps are more useful than this obscure tw_recycle thing that
> is hurting innocent users.

Ok, I guess we can remove it in that case.  I'm still a bit disappointed
as I was always hoping someone would find a way to make this work even
in the presence of NAT.

I must be too optimistic.