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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] Support arbitrary initial TCP timestamps
> > Adding yet another member to the already bloated tcp_sock structure to
> > implement this is too high a cost.
>
> Yes, I was worried that would be deemed too high of a cost, but it was
> the most efficient way I could think to accomplish what I wanted.
>
> > I would instead prefer that there be some global random number
> > calculated when the first TCP socket is created, and use that as a
> > global offset. You can even recompute it every few hours if you
> > like.
>
> That would work fine if my mine purpose was to randomize the tcp
> timestamp to mitigate the leak in information regarding uptime, but
> despite the brief description, that's only a side effect of what I
> intended to do. What I wanted was a way to be able to choose an initial
> tcp timestamp for a particular connection that was not tied directly to
> jiffies.
>
> The two patches following this show my intended use case. I intend to
> enhance syncookie support to allow it to support advanced tcp options
> (sack and window scaling). Normally syncookies encode the bare minimum
> state of a connection in the ISN they choose, but the 32bit ISN isn't
> enough to encode advanced tcp options so you are left with a working but
> crippled tcp stack during a synflood attack. If in addition to choosing
> an ISN we are able to choose an initial tcp timestamp, we are then able
> to encode an additional 32 bits of information that can contain more of
> the advanced tcp options.

Perhaps I should clarify. I don't see a way to implement the additional
syncookie enhancements without storing an offset in some type of
per-socket structure. Given that, is it still deemed too high of a cost?
Is enhancing syncookies not deemed important enough to warrant the
additional 4 bytes? What if there was an additional config variable to
support arbitrary/random tcp timestamps, and then syncookies only used
the additional options when that setting was chosen? Is there some
possiblity I'm missing that could get this feature in a form suitable
for inclusion? Thanks.

--Glenn



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