(usagi-users 04030) TCP timewait recycle/reuse for IPv6?

Octavian Purdila <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:02:54 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ipv6.usagi.users
Organization IXIA
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Is there a way to prevent getting bind(in6addr_any) failures when we have lots 
of TIMEWAIT sockets hanging around? It looks like timewait reuse/recyle is 
not supported in the IPv6 stack. 

This issue arises when we are running a very high connection rate 
client/server setup. 

Thanks,
tavi