From owner-freebsd-net Mon Apr 16 13: 4:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-27.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1E1537B423; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:04:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CE7DE678B8; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:04:28 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Darren Reed Cc: Kris Kennaway , Barney Wolff , "E.B. Dreger" , Wes Peters , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG, provos@OpenBSD.org Subject: Re: non-random IP IDs Message-ID: <20010416130428.A11906@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010416125053.A11446@xor.obsecurity.org> <200104161958.FAA08797@caligula.anu.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200104161958.FAA08797@caligula.anu.edu.au>; from avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:58:22AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --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