TIMEWAIT Assassination

Onload User Guide (UG1586)

Document ID
UG1586
Release Date
2023-07-31
Revision
1.2 English

In Onload 201811 the EF_TCP_TIME_WAIT_ASSASSINATION environment variable has been added, to implement the RFC 1337 behavior of replacing old TIMEWAIT sockets with newly-received incoming connections.

The default value is read from /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rfc1337.