Re: 48 day uptime problem?

David Miller (androsyn@i95.com)
Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:06:54 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, David Miller wrote:
> From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:21:11 +0100 (BST)
>
> Someone has dropped it into 32bits in error causing the
> problem. Probably the tcp/ip code
>
> It's almost certainly the timestamp and rtt handling in TCP then.
>
> I'm pretty sure I understand the problem so I'll work on a fix.

I know that it has been suggested in the past that the jiffies counter
should be set so that it rolls over within about 10 minutes to make
everything that has a problem with this break. Maybe looking back with
20/20 hindsight we should have done this in the 2.1.x series. Perhaps in
2.3.x???

I'll probably go ahead and do this on my laptop and see what explodes in
my face ;)

Aaron

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