Re: kern/56588: ESP's extended sequence number support

[Andrew Cagney <andrew.cagney%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/56588; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andrew Cagney <andrew.cagney%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/56588: ESP's extended sequence number support
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 16:43:39 -0500

 One note, extended sequence numbers should not require a reply window.
 Hardware can burn through 2^32 sequence numbers in minutes and trying
 to hold anything approaching a meaningful number of replay bits is
 becoming unfeasible.