cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/netinet6 ip6_id.c
ip6_output.c ip6_var.h
Hajimu UMEMOTO
ume at mahoroba.org
Wed Oct 1 09:03:52 PDT 2003
Hi,
>>>>> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 08:40:32 -0700
>>>>> Sam Leffler <sam at errno.com> said:
> Log:
> randomize IPv6 fragment ID.
sam> The cost of doing this was argued extensively on the netbsd mailing lists. In
sam> FreeBSD, for IPv4, it is conditional on RANDOM_IP_ID. Is there any reason
sam> this is being done for IPv6 other than to defeat attacks? If not can you
sam> please make it conditional in the same way?
It sounds reasonable. I've just committed to make it conditional.
Thank you for your suggestion.
Sincerely,
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