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consider disabling tcp timestamps #305

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thestinger opened this Issue Jun 12, 2016 · 2 comments

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thestinger commented Jun 12, 2016

These leak the uptime, but it's a valuable TCP extension. Ideally, there would be a randomized starting point for each connection as recommended by newer RFCs.

ICMP timestamps are already dropped.

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Rudd-O Jun 21, 2016

Please do disable them.

Rudd-O commented Jun 21, 2016

Please do disable them.
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These are randomized in current Linux kernels so time will fix this problem.
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thestinger commented Jun 11, 2017

These are randomized in current Linux kernels so time will fix this problem.

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