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Re: timeout in fedora c2

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: timeout in fedora c2
From: Yunfeng Hou <houyunf@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:02:31 -0700 (PDT)
--- Roberto Nibali <ratz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > There are a bunch of timeouts which are not
> possible
> > to set by ipvsadm --set command. 
> > 
> >        /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/timeout_close
> >        /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/timeout_closewait
> >        /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/timeout_established
> >        /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/timeout_finwait
> >        /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/timeout_icmp
> >        /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/timeout_lastack
> >        /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/timeout_listen
> >        /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/timeout_synack
> >        /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/timeout_synrecv
> >        /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/timeout_synsent
> >        /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/timeout_timewait
> >        /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/timeout_udp
> 
> Those were used as kind of a defense mechanism in
> the ancient days I 
> come to believe and nowadays are to be replaced by
> the same parameters 
> exported through the ip_conntrack module.
> 
> Load ip_conntrack and walk the
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter tree and 
> wonders shall hit the earth ...
> 

Thanks for the info. And do you think it will be used
along with secure_tcp defense strategy as
http://www.linux-vs.org/docs/defense.html described to
replace the timeouts mentioned.



                
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