RE: How to disable Denial-of-Service safeguard in Linux Kernel?

Without knowing anything about your linux tcp server I will take a guess at
what is happening.

When the client disconnects from the server the server port may not be
closing...it may be in a TIME WAIT state.  So when the next connection
request comes in it cannot accept because the port is still open.  The
server ports will eventually timeout which is why the longer time between
connections works.

Try this...after your client disconnects, do a 'netstat --inet' on the
server.  My guess is you'll see the port your server uses is still open.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Vacca [mailto:svacca@valcom.com]
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 2:30 PM
To: LinuxEmbeddedMailList (E-mail)
Subject: How to disable Denial-of-Service safeguard in Linux Kernel?



I am suspecting the the problem stated below is due to
Denial-of-Service safeguards
incorporated into the Linux Kernel.  Would anyone know how to
diable this feauture?

Thanks,

ShutEye Thinkin

-----Original Message-----
From:	Steven Vacca [SMTP:svacca@valcom.com]
Sent:	Friday, January 05, 2001 10:50 AM
To:	LinuxEmbeddedMailList (E-mail)
Subject:	TCP Server stops accepting after 10mins

Hi everyone.  I would very much appreciate help with the
following problem:

The Unit Under Test (UUT) has Redhat's embedded Linux kernel
(based on Linux
kernel 2.2.13), from the Redhat EDK 1.0, running on an
embedded MPC860 uP
with 8M of RAM, and is connected to a LAN.

For my test, I have a TCP Client (Microsoft) on a PC, also
connected to the
LAN, connect to the TCP Server (linux) on the UUT at the
following intervals
(50/s = "50 connects per sec", 1/5s = "1 connect every 5 secs"):

       50/s, 1/5s, 1/20s, 1/30s, and 1/60s.

For 50/s, 1/5s, 1/20s, and 1/30s, approx. 10 minutes (+/- 1
connect period) is the
constant time when the TCP Client fails to connect to the Server.

But, whenever the connect frequency = 1/60s, or longer, then
the problem goes
away and the TCP Client can connect forever at this rate.


Test Results:

50/s:	stopped connecting                 @  10:00
(over 29,500 connect()s.)

1/5s:	stopped connecting on next try @ 10:05

1/20s:	stopped connecting on next try @ 9:40

1/30s:	stopped connecting on next try @ 10:30

1/60s:   connects forever (several hours in test)


The fact that regardless of whether the connects occur at a
very high frequency
(50/s) or low frequency (1/30s), the TCP Client fails to
connect after 10 mins.
(I think 1min and 10 mins are key info). I would think that
this would indicate
that the problem is not one of running out of allocated memory.
It appears that something happens once a minute, some type of
cleanup, maybe?
And if that goes on for 10 times, then connects are denied.  As
long as at least 1 min is allowed to go by without accepting
a connect from a
client, then there is no problem, and another 10 min period
is allowed to occur.

This is very repeatable.  Note that if I pause the Client
from connecting just before
the 10 minute time period connect() failure is to occur, and
wait at least 1 minute
(can't be less), and then allow the Client to continue
connecting, then the Client
is able to connect for another 10 minutes before the
connect() failure occurs.

This problem occurs even when I have no threads running, and
the TCP Server is
executing in the main() func.

Thanks a million for anybody's help or suggestions,

ShutEye Thinkin
Roanoke, Virginia  USA

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