Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262930AbTFDF7V (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 01:59:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262934AbTFDF7U (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 01:59:20 -0400 Received: from palrel10.hp.com ([156.153.255.245]:24272 "EHLO palrel10.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262930AbTFDF7T (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 01:59:19 -0400 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16093.36319.412668.87363@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 23:12:47 -0700 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, niv@us.ibm.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@intercode.com.au, gandalf@wlug.westbo.se, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@linuxia64.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, akpm@digeo.com Subject: Re: fix TCP roundtrip time update code In-Reply-To: <20030603.225245.55753285.davem@redhat.com> References: <16093.30507.661714.676184@napali.hpl.hp.com> <3EDD7832.7010804@us.ibm.com> <16093.34022.445246.52398@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20030603.225245.55753285.davem@redhat.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under Emacs 21.2.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 876 Lines: 23 >>>>> On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 22:52:45 -0700 (PDT), "David S. Miller" said: David> From: David Mosberger 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/