From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 23 2:27:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from student-mailhub.dcu.ie (ns.dcu.ie [136.206.1.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B552014D3E for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 02:27:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pooka@redbrick.dcu.ie) Received: from mother.redbrick.dcu.ie (postfix@Mother.RedBrick.DCU.IE [136.206.15.2]) by student-mailhub.dcu.ie (8.9.3/8.9.3/893-FD) with ESMTP id KAA04758 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 10:27:25 +0100 (BST) Received: by mother.redbrick.dcu.ie (Postfix, from userid 2033) id D95C043850; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 10:27:24 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 10:27:24 +0100 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On TCP sequence numbers Message-ID: <19990823102724.A13469@mother.redbrick.dcu.ie> References: <199908201427.QAA02524@hangdog.is.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <199908201427.QAA02524@hangdog.is.co.za>; from Geoff Rehmet on Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 04:27:44PM +0200 Organization: My Own Private Hideyhole, Inc. From: pooka@redbrick.dcu.ie (Tiny Non Cats) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ Geoff Rehmet ] > Another question that comes in to this is - how good a tool is nmap > for evaluating the predictability of the sequence numbers we generate? Just a funny (?) aside - while playing about with nmap here a while back, a colleague accidentally discovered that our Digital (or Compaq Tru64, if you want to be perverse) Unix 4.0E box was using a constant (?!) sequence number. Cian -- What think ye of Christ? Whose son is he? Will you, like Peter, boldly say: "Who?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message