Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 15:09:59 +0200 From: "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org> To: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can net.inet.tcp.msl be set per interface? Message-ID: <BANLkTin9gMJJFq=XxiGK0_R9UA7XdYH%2Bug@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA0534AF.15912%fsb@thefsb.org> References: <CA0534AF.15912%fsb@thefsb.org>
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Unfortunately msl is a global variable:
tcp_timer.c:
int tcp_msl;
SYSCTL_PROC(_net_inet_tcp, OID_AUTO, msl, CTLTYPE_INT|CTLFLAG_RW,
&tcp_msl, 0, sysctl_msec_to_ticks, "I", "Maximum segment lifetime");
Sockets or rather inpcbs in timewait are maintained on a per-vnet
list. Since tcp_twstart is called from tcp_do_segment in tcp_input.c
it does actually have access to the mbuf triggering the state
transition and thus the receiving interface. As far as I can tell,
changing the behavior to what you're asking for would not be
difficult.
Cheers,
Kip
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote:
> [[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
>
>
>
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