Re: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets

[Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>]

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On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:36:25 -0400
"Michael Pattrick" <snownet () gmail com> wrote:

> With the Debian Lenny kernel, I get:
> Uptime: 198.840 days (since Sat Feb 02 00:01:06 2008)
> Uptime: 199.637 days (since Fri Feb 01 04:55:34 2008)
> Uptime: 199.637 days (since Fri Feb 01 04:57:27 2008)
> Uptime: 198.838 days (since Sat Feb 02 00:10:15 2008)

Interesting numbers.  The max difference in these numbers is very nearly
2^16 seconds.  199 days is very nearly 2^24 seconds.

Perhaps there is an endianness problem in the timestamps some kernels
use?

Brandon

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