From owner-freebsd-security Thu Apr 12 6:12:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wlcg.com (mail.wlcg.com [207.226.17.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C94DC37B422 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 06:12:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsimmons@wlcg.com) Received: from localhost (rsimmons@localhost) by mail.wlcg.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3CDCNA63587; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:12:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rsimmons@wlcg.com) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:12:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Rob Simmons To: Mike Silbersack Cc: Mark T Roberts , Subject: Re: non-random IP IDs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Mike Silbersack wrote: > Each IP packet sent has with it a 16-bit ID. The numbers must remain > unique over a short period of time so fragmentation can work properly. As > such, everything except recent openbsds simple increments the id by 1 for > each packet sent out. What is the behavior of OpenBSD for this? If its not important, why would they change it? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE61am3v8Bofna59hYRA3DJAKCfCpvpwhiE9D7d1P+Vm8tr4HXpJACgxVfG wH9Q0Lz8yMB/9u7slM92UEo= =ZKgl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message