tcp: set net.inet.tcp.nolocaltimewait to 0 and deprecate it

Set the default value of the sysctl-variable
net.inet.tcp.nolocaltimewait to 0. This will make the behavior
compliant with RFC 9293.
Furthermore document that using the sysctl-variable is deprecated
and will be removed in FreeBSD 16.

Reviewed by:		glebius, Peter Lei
Relnotes:		yes
Sponsored by:		Netflix, Inc.
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5106
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Michael Tuexen 2025-06-27 22:47:21 +02:00
parent 9c014cc25c
commit c3fc0db3bc
2 changed files with 31 additions and 7 deletions

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@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd June 26, 2025
.Dd June 27, 2025
.Dt TCP 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -785,8 +785,8 @@ The Maximum Segment Lifetime, in milliseconds, for a packet when both endpoints
are local.
.Va msl_local
is only used if
.Va nolocaltimewait
is zero.
.Va nolocaltimewait ,
which is deprecated, is zero.
.It Va mssdflt
The default value used for the TCP Maximum Segment Size
.Pq Dq MSS
@ -798,10 +798,16 @@ application limited and the network bandwidth is not utilized completely.
That prevents self-inflicted packet losses once the application starts to
transmit data at a higher speed.
.It Va nolocaltimewait
Suppress creation of TCP
Suppress the creation of TCP
.Dv TIME_WAIT
states for connections in
which both endpoints are local.
The default is 0.
.Va nolocaltimewait
is deprecated and will be removed in
.Fx 16 .
.Va msl_local
can be used instead.
.It Va path_mtu_discovery
Enable Path MTU Discovery.
.It Va pcbcount

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@ -87,10 +87,28 @@
#include <security/mac/mac_framework.h>
VNET_DEFINE_STATIC(bool, nolocaltimewait) = true;
VNET_DEFINE_STATIC(bool, nolocaltimewait) = false;
#define V_nolocaltimewait VNET(nolocaltimewait)
SYSCTL_BOOL(_net_inet_tcp, OID_AUTO, nolocaltimewait,
CTLFLAG_VNET | CTLFLAG_RW, &VNET_NAME(nolocaltimewait), 0,
static int
sysctl_net_inet_tcp_nolocaltimewait(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS)
{
int error;
bool new;
new = V_nolocaltimewait;
error = sysctl_handle_bool(oidp, &new, 0, req);
if (error == 0 && req->newptr) {
V_nolocaltimewait = new;
gone_in(16, "net.inet.tcp.nolocaltimewait is obsolete."
" Use net.inet.tcp.local_msl instead.\n");
}
return (error);
}
SYSCTL_PROC(_net_inet_tcp, OID_AUTO, nolocaltimewait,
CTLFLAG_VNET | CTLFLAG_RW | CTLTYPE_U8,
&VNET_NAME(nolocaltimewait), 0, sysctl_net_inet_tcp_nolocaltimewait, "CU",
"Do not create TCP TIME_WAIT state for local connections");
static u_int