On 2010-12-09, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > TIME_WAIT are FD which have been finished with but are in a TCP timeout > in case there are stray packets still somewhere in the network. Somewhat > around 5 minutes IIRC. Sockets (FD) cannot be re-used until there is no > chance of stray packets corrupting the next TCP connection to use them. F.ex. by putting the following into /etc/sysctl.conf: net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 30 And maybe also extend the ephemeral port range: net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 16384 61000 and activate by "sysctl -p". -jf
