netdev - Re: Bug in tcp timestamp option ? TSecr in SYN-ACK != TSval in SYN

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Date:	Wed, 27 May 2015 11:02:12 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Gopakumar Choorakkot Edakkunni <gopakumar.c.e@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
	Van Jacobson <vanj@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Bug in tcp timestamp option ? TSecr in SYN-ACK != TSval in SYN

On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 10:57 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 10:29 -0700, Gopakumar Choorakkot Edakkunni wrote:
> > Thanks Eric. I will give this a spin. The issue doesnt happen all the
> > time, I can keep the server running with this patch for a while and
> > observe if the issue resurfaces or not
> 
> Note that if the traffic on the server is low, you might want to keep a
> tcpdump running (capturing only headers for TCP port 443) for further
> analysis.

We wonder if this could be a time-wait issue

Could you check on the server :

sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle
sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse

Thanks


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