Subject: Re: random ip_id must be configurable
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@itojun.org>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 09/16/2003 12:16:57
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:10:28AM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
>
> > This is good to know. However, I'm still sceptical that there may be
> > other problems with the generator in it's current form. Is this also
> > safe with the generators usage in RPC xid's and TCP ids?
>
> we don't use it for TCP. wrt RPC, i'm not sure.
This is the same generator as sys/netinet/ip_id.c. There's three
calls to ip_randomid() under sys/netinet that I can see...
Simon.
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