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Date:      Thu, 12 Apr 2001 23:20:41 +1000 (Australia/ACT)
From:      Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To:        rsimmons@wlcg.com (Rob Simmons)
Cc:        silby@silby.com (Mike Silbersack), newsletter@marktroberts.com (Mark T Roberts), freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: non-random IP IDs
Message-ID:  <200104121320.XAA02344@caligula.anu.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104120910370.63358-100000@mail.wlcg.com> from "Rob Simmons" at Apr 12, 2001 09:12:19 AM

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In some mail from Rob Simmons, sie said:
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> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> 
> > Each IP packet sent has with it a 16-bit ID.  The numbers must remain
> > unique over a short period of time so fragmentation can work properly.  As
> > such, everything except recent openbsds simple increments the id by 1 for
> > each packet sent out.
> 
> What is the behavior of OpenBSD for this?  If its not important, why would
> they change it?

They're more paranoid than others are.


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