Re: non-random IP IDs

From: Rob Simmons (rsimmons@wlcg.com)
Date: 04/12/01 

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:12:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com>
To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>

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On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Mike Silbersack wrote:

> Each IP packet sent has with it a 16-bit ID. The numbers must remain
> unique over a short period of time so fragmentation can work properly. As
> such, everything except recent openbsds simple increments the id by 1 for
> each packet sent out.

What is the behavior of OpenBSD for this? If its not important, why would
they change it?
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