In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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