netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] netfilter: implement netfilter SYN proxy

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Date:	Wed, 7 Aug 2013 23:05:40 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, pablo@...filter.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	mph@....com, jesper.brouer@...il.com, as@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] netfilter: implement netfilter SYN proxy

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 10:59:59PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 11:06:06AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > TCP timestamps are not really used, for various reasons ...
> > 
> > Have you taken a look at 
> > 
> > <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2013-July/035999.html>
> 
> No, not yet, will have a look. Not sure what you mean by "TCP timestamps
> are not really used" though. I might be biased by usually only looking at
> Linux traffic, but I was under that impression that everyone is using
> TCP timestamps nowadays?

We had a thread here on netdev:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/275681/>

It seems, Windows stopped using tcp timestamps at least in windows 8 by
default.
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