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authorVincent Bernat <vincent@bernat.im>2017-09-07 07:32:43 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2017-09-14 14:45:20 +0200
commit3680bb10dc4145a64654e51a910dd8673cd33b24 (patch)
treec6f9eaf1f7c2b0969faefbc77c7398f0e184e492
parentccf7d8ecb74775ec57912b9955ddb4835b2222d1 (diff)
downloadman-pages-3680bb10dc4145a64654e51a910dd8673cd33b24.tar.gz
tcp.7: tcp_tw_recycle is removed from Linux 4.12
And it is completely broken. Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat <vincent@bernat.im> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man7/tcp.716
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7
index 415c7690d5..c7d2fcb536 100644
--- a/man7/tcp.7
+++ b/man7/tcp.7
@@ -864,16 +864,12 @@ can be consumed by a single TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) frame.
The setting of this parameter is a tradeoff between burstiness and
building larger TSO frames.
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-.IR tcp_tw_recycle " (Boolean; default: disabled; since Linux 2.4)"
-.\" Since 2.3.15
-Enable fast recycling of TIME_WAIT sockets.
-Enabling this option is
-not recommended for devices communicating with the general Internet
-or using NAT (Network Address Translation).
-Since some NAT gateways
-pass through IP timestamp values, one IP can appear to have
-non-increasing timestamps.
-See RFC 1323 (PAWS), RFC 6191.
+.IR tcp_tw_recycle " (Boolean; default: disabled; Linux 2.4 to 4.12)"
+.\" Since 2.3.15; removed in 4.12; commit 4396e46187ca5070219b81773c4e65088dac50cc
+Enable fast recycling of TIME_WAIT sockets. Enabling this option is
+not recommended as the remote IP may not use monotonically increasing
+timestamps (devices behind NAT, devices with per-connection timestamp
+offsets). See RFC 1323 (PAWS), RFC 6191.
.\"
.\" The following is from 2.6.12: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
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