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Re: randomize source port



On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:00:21AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> As a quick test, I did the following:

I'm not sure if directly randomising the port is a good idea.
I think it should at least be a random shuffle for the same reason that
the TCP sequence numbers are not using a direct PRNG. Note that a random
shuffle also avoids most of the motivation for moving to a sequential
numbers, at least if short living connections are concerned.

Joerg


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