From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 15:35:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6663C16A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:35:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch [62.48.0.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C3E43D4C for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:35:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andre@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 92338 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2004 15:35:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) ([62.48.0.53]) (envelope-sender ) by mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Jun 2004 15:35:06 -0000 Message-ID: <40E18C2B.B72825F8@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:35:07 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Malone References: <200406291413.ab33924@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RANDOM_IP_ID sysctl? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:35:09 -0000 David Malone wrote: > > It seems to me that RANDOM_IP_ID might be better as a sysctl rather > than a kernel option. Would anyone mind if I changed this? No, but make sure that when the sysctl is disabled that no overhead with random ip_id creation/stepping is incured. -- Andre