Re: compressed TIME-WAIT to be decomissioned

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From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:17:25 UTC

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 09:06:50PM +0100, Michael Tuexen wrote:
M> > I'm talking about statistics that I recently committed to CURRENT only:
M> > 
M> > # netstat -sp tcp | grep TIME-WAIT
M> >        3 times connection in TIME-WAIT responded with ACK
M> >        0 times connection in TIME-WAIT was actively recycled
M> >        0 times connection in TIME-WAIT responded with RST
M> > 
M> > They show were the TIME-WAITs actually used.
M> Aren't they also used on the client side to avoid reusing the same 5-tuple
M> with the 2 * MSL period. This is not covered by the above (and possibly not
M> relevant on the machine you where looking at).

Good point. We are not counting this kind of use.

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Gleb Smirnoff