From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 10 04:31:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7866D16A41F for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:31:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1534143D45 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:31:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j9A4VOwD058727; Sun, 9 Oct 2005 23:31:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 23:31:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Jeremy Baggs Message-ID: <20051010043124.GF44754@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4349E934.9070506@san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4349E934.9070506@san.rr.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: random ip id X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:31:26 -0000 In the last episode (Oct 09), Jeremy Baggs said: > I have a firewall with a small CF installation of FreeBSD 5.2.1 (post > 20040814). It is missing the sysctl variable: net.inet.ip.random_id. > I am wondering if one of the libraries or kernel objects I ripped out > to minimize the install could be the culprit for this. Any clues > would b e appreciated... That sysctl was added in FreeBSD 5.3. You may be able to get the same functionality in 5.2.1 with the RANDOM_IP_ID kernel option, but you should probably upgrade to 5.4. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com