TCP Profile > Time Wait Recycle

Hi Steven,

I faced the same uncertainty reading the SOL, and finally found a way better explanation.

Within the GUI itself, the Help tab mentions:

Time Wait Recycle: Specifies, when checked (enabled), that connections in a TIME-WAIT state are reused when the system receives a SYN packet, indicating a request for a new connection. When this setting is not enabled, connections in a TIME-WAIT state remain unused for a specified length of time (typically twice the maximum segment lifetime), to ensure that the original transmission is complete. Using this setting enabled, the system can recycle a wait-state connection immediately upon receipt of a new connection request instead of having to wait until the connection times out of the wait state. By default, this setting is enabled.

Hope this helps, Mathieu.