There is no such thing has a TCP timestamp: http://freebie.fatpipe.org/~mjb/Drawings/TCP_Header.png
so, that doesn't make any sense... On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Kevin Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I also forgot that I had been subscribed to this list. > To get a topic going I was at work and I argued that we should disable TCP > timestamps. I was discussing in a meeting that this would cut back (perhaps > very slightly) on the amount of work that the system has to do before > sending a packet out. In a high traffic system (like a file server or a mail > server or in my case a Oracle Database), not having to throw this on every > packet should increase performance ever so slightly. Disabling this would > benefit security, as the attacker would not be able to gather the up time > from the targeted system. > Like I said this might be a slight increase, but its an increase > none-the-less, and when you have a DBA crying about poor network speed or > IO, or the system is too heavily loaded, then this keeps him quiet for a few > days. :) > Any thoughts??? > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- Miguel Sousa Filipe -- [email protected] mailing list
