Re: non-random IP IDs

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:58:22AM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
> In some mail from Kris Kennaway, sie said:
> > 
> > Surely that can't work since the purpose of that field is for received
> > packet ordering (unless I'm wrong, I'm not an IPv4 guru and only
> > skimmed the RFC), and what's ordered in network order isn't ordered in
> > host order.
> 
> It is not used by the receiver for packet ordering, only for collection
> of fragments (of a larger packet).

Okay, I'll have to read the RFC again more closely.

Kris

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