Re: Missing ACKs with Linux 2.2/2.4?

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Sun Nov 12 2000 - 08:30:47 EST


On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 02:27:13PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 20:26:49 +0100
>
> Or is timestamp 0 a legal value?
>
> It is legal.

NetBSD ignores 0 timestamps. Although that's a hack it is IMHO a reasonable one and
Linux should probably do it too. Even when the 0 is generated legitimately by wrapping
counters it is probably not a big problem to lose timestamps for such few packets.

-Andi
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