linux-kernel - Re: change "tcp: randomize tcp timestamp offsets for each connection" broke networking

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Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2017 03:49:31 +0100
From:   Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:     Lutz Vieweg <lvml@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: change "tcp: randomize tcp timestamp offsets for each
 connection" broke networking

On Wed, 2017-03-15 at 20:48 +0100, Lutz Vieweg wrote:
> Dear Linux Developers,
> 
> change set "tcp: randomize tcp timestamp offsets for each connection"
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/co
> mmit/?id=95a22caee396cef0bb2ca8fafdd82966a49367bb
> broke networking for several users starting from linux-4.10 -
> connects (even to localhost) would just time out in many cases.
> 
> See
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194723
> for a detailed description and the "git bisect" log.

The netdev thread therein indicates that the fix is in the works...

	-Mike