Messages in this thread |  | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: Missing ACKs with Linux 2.2/2.4? | Date | Fri, 17 Nov 2000 06:37:48 +0100 |
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In article <200011121600.TAA17075@ms2.inr.ac.ru> you wrote: > Timestamp is not a random number, so that probability of PAWS failure > does not depend on restricting it at all. The only thing which can help > to reduce probability is dropping all tpacket with ts_val==0 > or shutting down your machine while time of your peers passes through zero. 8)
But Timestamps are not increased by one every packet, so the likelyhood that a wraparound
a) happens and b) happens while a packet is send
is realy small.
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