Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 23:20:41 +1000 (Australia/ACT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: rsimmons@wlcg.com (Rob Simmons) Cc: silby@silby.com (Mike Silbersack), newsletter@marktroberts.com (Mark T Roberts), freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: non-random IP IDs Message-ID: <200104121320.XAA02344@caligula.anu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104120910370.63358-100000@mail.wlcg.com> from "Rob Simmons" at Apr 12, 2001 09:12:19 AM
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In some mail from Rob Simmons, sie said: > > -----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? They're more paranoid than others are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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