Re: Question about tcp hash function tcp_hashfn()

From: Brian F. G. Bidulock
Date: Thu Jun 01 2006 - 02:45:20 EST


Evgeniy,

On Thu, 01 Jun 2006, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
>
> Since pseudo-randomness affects both folded and not folded hash
> distribution, it can not end up in different results.

Yes it would, so to rule out pseudo-random effects the pseudo-
random number generator must be removed.

>
> You are right that having test with 2^48 values is really interesting,
> but it will take ages on my test machine :)

Try a usable subset; no pseudo-random number generator.
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