From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
Cc: wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com
Subject: Re: WG: Need for HW-clock independent timestamps
Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 09:56:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180521145618.GA3199@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8fc246f8-7662-2fd2-f6ee-93d6802a37f0@urlichs.de>
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 15:53:10 +0200,
Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de> wrote:
>On 21.05.2018 14:35, Reto Brunner wrote:
>> If you just want a single write cycle, then you loose the ability to graceful
>> handle unexpected shutdowns.
>Why?
>> Even if you increment the counter by 10'000 when restoring it, who's to
>> say the device hasn't been running for several weeks before the
>> unexpected power cycle happened?
>
>So increment the counter by a trillion instead. It's large enough and
>you're not going to send a trillion packets before the next reboot.
If you want to go that route, you should just treat it as a two part number.
One for a boot count, that would get incremented every boot and saved and
a low order part that is reset to 0 at every boot. Note that this scheme
leaks information to the peer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-21 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-11 22:07 WG: Need for HW-clock independent timestamps Axel Neumann
2018-05-11 22:45 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2018-05-12 0:05 ` Glen Bojsza
2018-05-12 19:29 ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-12 19:41 ` Aaron Jones
2018-05-15 20:21 ` Devan Carpenter
2018-05-15 20:49 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2018-05-16 7:10 ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-16 19:32 ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-16 20:32 ` Steve Gilberd
2018-05-17 3:40 ` Paul
2018-05-17 5:03 ` Roman Mamedov
2018-05-17 5:53 ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-17 7:07 ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-17 8:28 ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-16 20:35 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2018-05-12 22:10 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-05-12 23:05 ` Reuben Martin
2018-05-13 6:11 ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-13 12:37 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-05-16 7:01 ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-16 9:38 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2018-05-16 11:08 ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-16 11:12 ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-13 14:21 ` Wang Jian
2018-05-21 10:07 ` WG: " Axel Neumann
2018-05-21 11:22 ` Reto Brunner
2018-05-21 11:52 ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-21 12:31 ` Axel Neumann
2018-05-21 12:35 ` Reto Brunner
2018-05-21 13:53 ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-21 14:56 ` Bruno Wolff III [this message]
2018-05-21 15:34 ` Matthias Urlichs
2018-05-22 20:25 ` Ivan Labáth
2018-05-23 2:51 ` Matthias Urlichs
2019-02-04 14:56 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2019-02-23 4:00 ` Axel Neumann
2019-02-23 12:35 ` Ivan Labáth
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2018-05-21 11:58 ` reiner otto
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