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Hamza
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Jan 19, 2023
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Impact of disabling TCP Timestamp in TCP and fasl4 profile

Hello, We have conduction a recent PCI scan which identified TCP timestamp as a risk. I would like to know the impact of disabling tcp timestamp in tcp and fastl4 profiles for clinet and sever side...
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    Paulius
    Jan 19, 2023

    Hamza from my understanding this would make it so if you were looking at a tcpdump you wouldn't be able to accurately record the round trip time for communication back and forth as well as anything that uses the timestamp to adjust the receive window or transmit buffer.

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Paulius
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Jan 19, 2023

Hamza from my understanding this would make it so if you were looking at a tcpdump you wouldn't be able to accurately record the round trip time for communication back and forth as well as anything that uses the timestamp to adjust the receive window or transmit buffer.