Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: conntrack: lower timeout to RETRANS seconds if window is 0

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On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 09:27:28PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> When zero window is announced we can get into a situation where
> connection stays around forever:
> 
> 1. One side announces zero window.
> 2. Other side closes.
> 
> In this case, no FIN is sent (stuck in send queue).
> 
> Unless other side opens the window up again conntrack
> stays in ESTABLISHED state for a very long time.
> 
> Lets alleviate this by lowering the timeout to RETRANS (5 minutes),
> the other end should be sending zero window probes to keep the
> connection established as long as a socket still exists.

Applied, thanks!
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