Rebooting the kernel without resetting uptime?

[Mike Silbersack]

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