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Re: ping(8) picking up another ping's echo replies



On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 05:47:47PM +0100, Edgar Fuß wrote:
> I guess the cleanest solution would be a PRNG shared by all ping(8) instances 
> and nobody else. I guess we don't have something like that, do we?

I wonder if we should simply replace arc4random() & 0xffff by
arc4random_uniform(0xffff)?

Additionaly matching the address as you suggested also sounds fine.

Martin


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