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From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Missing ACKs with Linux 2.2/2.4?
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 06:37:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E13weDc-0003xR-00@calista.inka.de> (raw)

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.

Greetings
Bernd
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             reply	other threads:[~2000-11-18  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-17  5:37 Bernd Eckenfels [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-17  5:36 Bernd Eckenfels
     [not found] <20001112163538.A10339@gruyere.muc.suse.de>
2000-11-12 15:59 ` kuznet
2000-11-11 19:26 Bernd Eckenfels
2000-11-11 22:27 ` David S. Miller
2000-11-12 13:30   ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-12 14:26     ` kuznet
2000-11-09 19:36 Ben Mansell
2000-11-10  0:20 ` David S. Miller
2000-11-10 10:13   ` Ben Mansell
2000-11-10 10:12     ` David S. Miller
2000-11-10 11:49       ` Ben Mansell
2000-11-10 11:46         ` David S. Miller
2000-11-10 14:54           ` Ben Mansell
2000-11-10 11:50         ` David S. Miller

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