On Wed, 2017-03-15 at 15:40 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil.k...@gmail.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.
You mean revert Florian nice patches ? This would kill timestamps randomization, and thus prevent some organizations to turn TCP timestamps on. TCP timestamps are more useful than this obscure tw_recycle thing that is hurting innocent users.
