tunable udp timeout?

[Harald Welte]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:52:25PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> 	It looks like the next approach to tweaking UDP should be a
> table inside the UDP module which defines behavior and timeouts for
> individual ports.  Of course, with a module param to modify/add to the
> table.

Hey, this sounds cool.  There is only one issue involved: Who guarantees
you that certain services run on particular ports.  that's nothing more
than common practice...

But when we make this timeouts configurable, what prevents us from 
making the global (i.e. future default) timeouts configurable, too?

During the whole discussion, I get more and more convinced that having
sysctl-configurable timeouts for all conntrack time settings might be
better. 

I still remember the old 'bells-and-whistles' button discussion, but 
have a look at /proc/sys/net/ipv4 already offers plenty of settings,
and I think it's a good idea to follow those examples...

> Cheers,
> Rusty.

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