From: Vincent Bernat <vincent@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 11:41:39 +0200 > The documentation is not very helpful about what those settings > affect. We find numerous tuning guides advising to set both these > settings to 1 to reduce the number of entries in the TIME-WAIT > state. However, enabling tcp_tw_recycle will cause massive problems when > working with NAT. > > The documentation is completed a bit to explain quickly what kind of > connections both those settings will affect and to encourage the use of > tcp_tw_reuse instead of tcp_tw_recycle for outgoing connections. First of all your change locks a proper signoff. Second of all, both options can cause problems in the presence of NAT because both optimizations assume unique IP addresses identify unique physical hosts. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
