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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: non-random IP IDs
To: kris@obsecurity.org (Kris Kennaway)
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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

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