About the initial sequence number (ISN) in windows XP SP2

From: boyhill (boyhill_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:27:05 -0800

For my question, the key is that the random ISNs disobey the RFC protoals
about TCP/IP for ISNs increment set. They may affect the TCP communication
between the host and the network, result the confusion in communication.

Refrence:
1,Microsoft Windows Server 2003 TCP/IP Implementation Details
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/networking/tcpip03.mspx
"Windows Server 2003 TCP/IP has also been strengthened against a variety of
attacks that were published over the past couple of years and has been
subject to an internal security review intended to reduce susceptibility to
future attacks. For instance, the initial sequence number (ISN) algorithm has
been modified so that ISNs increase in random increments, using an RC4-based
random number generator initialized with a 2048-bit random key upon system
startup."
2,RFC

 Thanks

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