Re: PR/11288

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Subject: Re: PR/11288
From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:55:02 +0000 (UTC)

The following reply was made to PR kern/11288; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%gnats.netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: PR/11288
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:10:18 +0000

 Some time ago the kernel was changed to use 'random' ip_ids.
 Unfortunately the random number used (and still in use) will
 reuse id values sooner than it should.

        David

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