Re: predictable IP ID

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 4 Oct 1999 18:04:57 +0100 (BST)


> And the current IP ++ generation is allowing the world to know the load of
> your TCP/IP stack.

If I have a fairly good connection I can measure your WAN load anyway using
a mix of delay times for various packet lengths and the fact packets tend
to travel the backbones in groups of 3 or so frames.

> It would be nice to write an AVL common code (exactly as I did with the
> RB-tree some time ago when I replaced the page-cache and buffer cache
> hashtable with two rb-trees). Rewriting the AVL code each time we need it
> it's not nice IMHO.

We have 3 AVL trees if this goes in so yes

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