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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp•com>
To: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat•com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2•inr.ac.ru>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash•net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] tcp: introduce tcp_tw_interval to specifiy the time of TIME-WAIT
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:02:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5064869E.9060503@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120927142334.GA3194@neilslaptop.think-freely.org>

On 09/27/2012 07:23 AM, Neil Horman wrote:
> The code looks fine, but the idea really doesn't seem like a good plan to me.
> I'm sure HPUX/Solaris/AIX/etc have done this in response to customer demand, but
> that doesn't make it the right solution.

In the case of HP-UX at least, while the rope is indeed there, the 
advice is to not wrap it around one's neck unless one *really* has a 
handle on the environment.  Instead things suggested, in no particular 
order:

*) The aforementioned SO_REUSEADDR to address the "I can't restart the 
server quickly enough." issue

*) Tuning the size of the anonymous/ephemeral port range.

*) Making explicit bind() calls using the entire non-privileged port range

*) Making the connections longer-lived.  Especially if the comms are 
between a fixed set of IP addresses.

rick jones

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-27 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-27  8:41 [RFC PATCH net-next] tcp: introduce tcp_tw_interval to specifiy the time of TIME-WAIT Cong Wang
2012-09-27 14:23 ` Neil Horman
2012-09-27 17:02   ` Rick Jones [this message]
2012-09-28  6:33   ` Cong Wang
2012-09-28  6:43     ` David Miller
2012-09-28 17:30       ` Rick Jones
2012-09-28 13:16     ` Neil Horman
2012-10-02  7:04       ` Cong Wang
2012-10-02 12:09         ` Neil Horman
2012-10-08  3:17           ` Cong Wang
2012-10-08 14:07             ` Neil Horman
2012-10-09  3:42               ` Cong Wang
2012-09-27 17:05 ` David Miller
2012-09-28  6:39   ` Cong Wang
2012-09-28  6:44     ` David Miller

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