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Date:      Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:43:40 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: net.inet.ip.random_id possible ASA problems?
Message-ID:  <20090924164340.5ccb270b@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <4ABB7251.4060004@ibctech.ca>
References:  <4ABB679D.7030604@poughkeepsieschools.org> <4ABB7251.4060004@ibctech.ca>

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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:21:21 -0400
Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> wrote:


> IIRC, random_id allows initial TCP sequence numbers to be randomized.

I was a bit sceptical about that because it's inet.ip., not inet.tcp.

=46rom a quick grep of the source it appears to be for setting the ip id,
for ip fragmentation.



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