January 1 1970...the start of unix time.

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On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]>wrote:

> On RouterBoards, the bogus time is in the 1970s. It has been a while since
> I ran an x86 Mikrotik box.
>
>
>
> -----
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ty Featherling" <[email protected]>
> To: "Mikrotik discussions" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6:25:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Odd
>
> No what I think he is saying is that the PPPoE sessions might have started
> before the router synced with a NTP server. Since the sessions started with
> a bogus time in the past and the clock fixed itself the uptime adds the
> difference throwing it off significantly.
>
> -Ty
> On Aug 29, 2012 5:11 PM, "Robert Haas" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > No, the router never rebooted so the sessions never dropped.
> > One of those sessions listed with a 496 day uptime is my house and I know
> > my
> > session has not been up that long.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Randy Cosby
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 5:01 PM
> > To: Mikrotik discussions
> > Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Odd
> >
> > Just a guess...
> >
> > Did the pppoe sessions possibly come up BEFORE the Mikrotik device synced
> > time with an ntp server?
> >
> >
> > On 8/29/2012 3:47 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> > > Anyone see this before?
> > >
> > > I got an alert that one of our core routers rebooted at 2am this
> morning,
> > > but no alarms from any attached devices as being unreachable etc. Got
> up
> > and
> > > logged in and the uptime was 8 minutes or so.
> > > This afternoon I had a chance to investigate the router more. The
> router
> > has
> > > NOT rebooted - log files lack any indication I would expect to see
> from a
> > > router reboot (hundreds of PPPoE session coming back up) and attached
> > > devices interface statistics show no loss of link.
> > >
> > > Looking at the PPPoE active sessions, some of the session are showing
> up
> > 496
> > > days - which is the actual uptime of the router, which isn't possible
> > since
> > > I have the PPPoE session time limit set for 24 hours.
> > >
> > > Attached is an image showing the Active PPPoE sessions and the resource
> > page
> > > showing the reported uptime.
> > >
> > > The router is on X86 hardware running v4.17.
> > >
> > > I'm hoping to NOT reboot this router if at all possible, but my gut
> says
> > it
> > > is down hill from this point.
> > >
> > > Is my gut telling me correctly to go ahead and reboot the router to
> clear
> > > whatever has borked the router (memory leak, memory corruption, phase
> of
> > the
> > > moon) at the first chance I get?
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