Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:04:28 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>, "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG, provos@OpenBSD.org Subject: Re: non-random IP IDs Message-ID: <20010416130428.A11906@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200104161958.FAA08797@caligula.anu.edu.au>; from avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:58:22AM %2B1000 References: <20010416125053.A11446@xor.obsecurity.org> <200104161958.FAA08797@caligula.anu.edu.au>
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--82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:58:22AM +1000, Darren Reed wrote: > In some mail from Kris Kennaway, sie said: > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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 --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE621BMWry0BWjoQKURAuD0AJ9HRjVa5c1gEl3KV6omdVeq/GA4EgCgwYG3 kqvhG2YMHV7SFoAmq8OdRaU= =QjdL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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