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From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To: Robert N Watson <rnw@andrew.cmu.edu>
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In-reply-to: Robert N Watson's message of Thu, 5 Jun 1997 09:26:31 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: sequence predictability (fwd)
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> 
> 
> Having seen this post on the ntbugtraq mailing list, I was wondering how
> preditcabkle sequence numbers in FreeBSD TCP connections were..  And is
> this an accurate measurement?

I believe this is for BSDi.  I saw it too, and have sent a mail to
David LeBlanc, asking what his numbers were supposed to mean (they're
not well enough specified to be meaningfull; I _guess_ that they refer
to linear prediction, but I'm not certain), which BSDs he had measured
on, and to please do a clarification on the NTBugTraq list.

I really wouldn't want people to believe FreeBSD is that vulnerable if
it isn't true; and I suspect it no longer is.

Eivind.