On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 11:41:04AM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
> On 7 June 2015 at 11:03, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 06:22:19PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
> >> Unique flow identifiers are really a UUID of sorts, so it makes sense to
> >> reuse the UUID string representations for UFID.
> >>
> >> Suggested-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestrin...@nicira.com>
> >
> > Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
>
> It strikes me that it may be somewhat misleading to print UFIDs as
> UUIDs, given that there are specific bits with particular meaning in
> the UUID standards. One way to resolve this would be to tweak the UFID
> generation to create variant 4 UUIDs ("random") by overwriting the
> appropriate bits after hashing.
The same did occur to me. It's probably a good idea, if you're up for
it.
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