On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:30:17 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:40:34 -0700 > > > Finally time to get rid of buggy tw_recycle, that apparently some > > distros set to one. > > It's not buggy, it's just not designed in a way that it can work in > the presence of NAT. > > So yes, indeed, NO DISTRO SHOULD CHANGE THE VALUE TO "1" by default. > > Is CentOS the only culprit? > > But removing it is unnecessary, people who know what they are doing > can legitimately enable it if they know that there is no NAT going > on in their paths. The bug was reported first on CentOs but the bugzilla entry mentions the same problem exists on Arch Linux. Ubuntu (and Debian) do not have the problem. RHEL 7 also ok. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194723
