On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Neal Cardwell <ncardw...@google.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 1:42 AM, Akshat Kakkar <akshat.1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> There are multiple hosts/clients. All are mainly windows based. >> >> Timestamp is not used as my clients mainly are windows based and in >> that it tcp timestamp is by defauly disabled. > ... >> net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1 >> net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle=1 > > I suspect the problem is there. The net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle setting > should be 0. Running with the value 1 is known to cause buggy behavior > related to TCP timestamps, and that feature has been removed in kernel > v4.12. > > Can you please re-run your tests with net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle=0 or a > newer kernel? > > neal
Thanks for your reply. I understand that. But my point is, though tcp timestamp is enabled on the server, but as client is not using it ... so how come this _bug_ (if any) is triggered in first place.