netdev - Re: TCP timewait recycle/reuse for IPv6?

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Message-Id: <20080317.121110.182507644.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:11:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rick.jones2@...com
Cc:	opurdila@...acom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP timewait recycle/reuse for IPv6?

From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:15:27 -0700

> Octavian Purdila wrote:
> > While running the same traffic with IPv4, the timewait recyle/reuse
> > features kicks in and keeps the number of TIMEWAIT sockets to under a
> > 1000.
> 
> ISTR some discussion on the list about that recyling/reuse feature 
> perhaps going away.

The big problem is that it can't work in the presence of NAT
which basically makes it useless for the entire world.
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