netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] tcp: remove per-destination timestamp cache

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Date:   Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:40:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     soheil.kdev@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, soheil@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        ncardwell@...gle.com, ycheng@...gle.com, lvml@....de, fw@...len.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] tcp: remove per-destination timestamp
 cache

From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil.kdev@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:30:45 -0400

> Note that this cache was already broken for caching timestamps of
> multiple machines behind a NAT sharing the same address.

That's the documented, well established, limitation of time-wait
recycling.

People who enable it, need to consider this issue.

This limitation of the feature does not give us a reason to break the
feature even further as a matter of convenience, or to remove it
altogether for the same reason.

Please, instead, fix the bug that was introduced.

Thank you.