Re: Source port randomisation on NetBSD?

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20101024135612.GA21457%sources.org@localhost>,
Stephane Bortzmeyer  <stephane+netbsd%bortzmeyer.org@localhost> wrote:
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>Hello (and please copy me when replying, I'm not a subscriber of this
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>The Internet-Draft "Transport Protocol Port Randomization
>Recommendations" will be published as a RFC in a few days. Its current
>state is AUTH48, last reading before publication,
><http://www.rfc-editor.org/queue.html#draft-ietf-tsvwg-port-randomization>.
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>It discusses at length the implementation of port randomization for
>all the free Unices and NetBSD is mentioned as the only one without
>this feature (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and OpenSolaris all have
>it). Why is it so? Why not using the FreeBSD code?

No particular reason. It is just that nobody implemented it so far.

christos