Re: Bad TCP timestamps on non-PC platforms
flat view
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2011-01-06 16:44:04
From: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 22:55:43 -0800 (PST)
On embedded platforms, where real time clock is initialized lately or absent outright, this causes TSval field of outgoing TCP packets to be set to some garbage value, in my case in the vicinity of 0xffffffff.
The TCP timestamp is set from "jiffies", not from the RTC clock.