Subject: Re: synchronous ip_id
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 02/26/2003 10:37:07
Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org> writes:
> > Not necessarily - that's why the +1.
> > 
> > |---high bit 0---||---highi bit 1---||---high bit 0---|
> > 
> > If the last value of the first "high bit 0" equals the first value of
> > the second "high bit 0", it's just generated a duplicate, 2^15+1 from
> > the first copy to the second.
> 
> err, right. Stupid me.

I thought we were generating an ergodic sequence here, in which case
that isn't possible...

Perry