From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 20:08:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5917116A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:08:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.FreeBSD.org.cn (dns3.freebsd.org.cn [61.129.66.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D43243D48 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:08:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from delphij@frontfree.net) Received: (qmail 70626 invoked by uid 0); 29 Jun 2004 20:06:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO beastie.frontfree.net) (218.107.145.7) by mail.FreeBSD.org.cn with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 29 Jun 2004 20:06:57 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.frontfree.net [127.0.0.1]) by beastie.frontfree.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E18FB11DEF; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 03:43:53 +0800 (CST) Received: from beastie.frontfree.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (beastie.frontfree.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01269-03; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 03:43:53 +0800 (CST) Received: by beastie.frontfree.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A1E5411ACD; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 03:43:52 +0800 (CST) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 03:43:52 +0800 From: Xin LI To: Max Laier Message-ID: <20040629194352.GA1684@frontfree.net> References: <200406291413.ab33924@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20040629134008.GA356@frontfree.net> <200406291643.39705.max@love2party.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200406291643.39705.max@love2party.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-key-ID/Fingerprint: 0xCAEEB8C0 / 43B8 B703 B8DD 0231 B333 DC28 39FB 93A0 CAEE B8C0 X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.delphij.net/delphij.asc X-Operating-System: FreeBSD beastie.frontfree.net 5.2-delphij FreeBSD 5.2-delphij #80: Thu Jun 24 17:30:33 CST 2004 delphij@beastie.frontfree.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BEASTIE i386 X-URL: http://www.delphij.net X-By: delphij@beastie.frontfree.net X-Location: Beijing, China X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at frontfree.net cc: David Malone cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RANDOM_IP_ID sysctl? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:08:11 -0000 --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 04:43:32PM +0200, Max Laier wrote: >=20 > On Tuesday 29 June 2004 15:40, Xin LI wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 02:13:38PM +0100, David Malone wrote: > > > It seems to me that RANDOM_IP_ID might be better as a sysctl rather > > > than a kernel option. Would anyone mind if I changed this? >=20 > I personally think that RANDOM_IP_ID is something that should be tweakabl= e on=20 > a per-interface basis (at least). I usually want randomized IDs on my upl= ink=20 > interface while it could harm my GigE internal network due to faster ID r= euse=20 > cycles. Hmm... You are right and I concur with your idea now. Cheers, --=20 Xin LI http://www.delphij.net/ See complete headers for GPG key and other information. --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA4cZ4OfuToMruuMARArogAJ43PwjX/ozXfFW5Sp9n2wwHEPLbbwCeJHG5 w9BG8ajiQI9uynR68jMzF2I= =QM64 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY--