From owner-freebsd-security Thu Apr 12 6:21: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from caligula.anu.edu.au (caligula.anu.edu.au [150.203.224.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0066737B422 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 06:21:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from avalon@caligula.anu.edu.au) Received: (from avalon@localhost) by caligula.anu.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA02344; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 23:20:41 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed Message-Id: <200104121320.XAA02344@caligula.anu.edu.au> Subject: Re: non-random IP IDs To: rsimmons@wlcg.com (Rob Simmons) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 23:20:41 +1000 (Australia/ACT) Cc: silby@silby.com (Mike Silbersack), newsletter@marktroberts.com (Mark T Roberts), freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Rob Simmons" at Apr 12, 2001 09:12:19 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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