From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 6 02:24:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96C916A4CE for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:24:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay02.pair.com (relay02.pair.com [209.68.5.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57DAA43D3F for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:24:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 99539 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2004 02:24:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 6 Dec 2004 02:24:04 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 209.68.2.70 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 20:24:02 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack To: Stefan Midjich In-Reply-To: <41B07635.9060705@swebase.com> Message-ID: <20041205202236.M66036@odysseus.silby.com> References: <41B07635.9060705@swebase.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebooting the kernel without resetting uptime? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 02:24:06 -0000 On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Stefan Midjich wrote: > Hi > > I know a guy i respect on IRC told me this is not possible but since this is > the hackers list i thought the topic at least deserves a discussion. I guess > i wont be able to sit still until someone either does it or shows me why it > can't be done. Faking the uptime which is retrieved by netcraft and other services which check TCP timestamps would be easy. Faking your local uptime might be a bit more work, there could be sideeffects of accelerating the timecounters. Mike "Silby" Silbersack