From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: opurdila@ixiacom.com
Cc: rick.jones2@hp.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP timewait recycle/reuse for IPv6?
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:10:06 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080317.121006.206760103.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803172004.33246.opurdila@ixiacom.com>
From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:04:33 +0200
> While running the same traffic with IPv4, the timewait recyle/reuse
> features kicks in and keeps the number of TIMEWAIT sockets to under
> a 1000.
Timewait recycling should not be enabled if any of your connections
could even potentially be going through a firewall or NAT box.
In such cases, the invariants which are necessary for timewait
recycling to be valid are not present and thus you could risk
connection or data corruption.
Timewait recycling depends upon end systems really being end
systems on a connection level. With NAT, that is no longer
true, as the NAT box will reuse the same port for different
end nodes in subsequent connections.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-17 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-17 16:18 TCP timewait recycle/reuse for IPv6? Octavian Purdila
2008-03-17 17:43 ` Rick Jones
2008-03-17 18:04 ` Octavian Purdila
2008-03-17 18:15 ` Rick Jones
2008-03-17 19:11 ` David Miller
2008-03-17 19:10 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-03-18 5:27 ` Bill Fink
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