Subject: Re: kernel ip_randomid() and libc randomid(3) still "broken"
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/17/2003 04:06:01
On Monday 17 November 2003 03:40 am, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> >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.
No more complex than the routing table or the state that T/TCP keeps on a
couple of systems.