Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 05:58:22 +1000 (Australia/ACT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: kris@obsecurity.org (Kris Kennaway) Cc: barney@databus.com (Barney Wolff), eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net (E.B. Dreger), kris@obsecurity.org (Kris Kennaway), wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters), freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG, provos@OpenBSD.org Subject: Re: non-random IP IDs Message-ID: <200104161958.FAA08797@caligula.anu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20010416125053.A11446@xor.obsecurity.org> from "Kris Kennaway" at Apr 16, 2001 12:50:53 PM
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In some mail from Kris Kennaway, sie said: > > 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. It is not used by the receiver for packet ordering, only for collection of fragments (of a larger packet). Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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