Re: fix TCP roundtrip time update code

David Mosberger
2003-06-04T05:59:21Z

>>>>> On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 22:52:45 -0700 (PDT), "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> said:

David> From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date:
David> Tue, 3 Jun 2003 22:34:30 -0700

David> You can't go higher than 1000 conn/sec per client (IP
David> address) because otherwise you run out of port space (due to
David> TIME_WAIT).

DaveM> echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_recycle

DaveM> It should eliminate this limit. Unfortunately we can't
DaveM> enable this by default because of NAT :(

Ah, yes, provided PAWS is enabled, this would give you a time_wait
timeout of 3.5*RTO. Nice.

--david