Subject: Re: kernel ip_randomid() and libc randomid(3) still "broken"
To: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/16/2003 19:40:36 
>The 
>main purpose being to avoid having IDs wrap around quite as frequently with 
>high-bandwidth links.

Exactly. But if you support simultaneous connections to 5,000 or
10,000 different remote IP addreses, the details of managing all those
distinct ip_id counters gets ... tricky.