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Subject: Re: net.inet.ip.random_id possible ASA problems?
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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.