Re: predictable IP ID

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 23:50:28 +0100 (BST)

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> The referenced problem was 2.0 specific and has been solved in the current
> kernels on TCP level.
> Alan, I'm sorry for being so stupidly insistent on this issue.
>
> I still believe that IP IDs should be unpredictable.
> But I don't have more strong arguments than defragmentation attacks and port
> scanning with faked source at this moment.

Ok. Alexey felt the code you generated was useful for his tcp time wait
handling stuff. If so you solved a different problem to the intended one
but its still a solved problem

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