[[I asked this yesterday on -questions, probably the wrong list]] If a server has one interface to the Internet and another interface to a switch connecting to a few other servers, it seems TCP's MSL value might reasonably be set a lot lower on the private interface.
I'm specifically thinking of a lot of short MySQL connections(*) between the servers on the private LAN. The average number of MySQL client connections in TIME_WAIT will be proportional to MSL. And, while the circumstances under which a long MSL would help anything are unimaginable on the LAN, they are not on the Internet. So can net.inet.tcp.msl be set per interface? (*) Or similar: Sphinx, memcached, perhaps. Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
