Re: non-random IP IDs

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:03:11AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Here's a patch ported from OpenBSD which randomizes this (supposedly
> such that it respects the constraint of not wrapping within the
> prescribed time period).  I should wrap it in a sysctl, I guess.
> 
>   http://www.freebsd.org/~kris/ipid.patch

Okay, I did this and updated the patch, with the sysctl defaulting to
off since the random algorithm does add some amount of overhead.

> Comments?

Kris

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