[PATCH] turn RANDOM_IP_ID into a sysctl

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Aug 10 08:55:11 PDT 2005


On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:47:08PM +0200, Gordon Bergling wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the following patch turns RANDOM_IP_ID into a sysctl tunable.

Last time I spoke with Jeffrey about it, the conclusion was that fully
random ip ids have too many problems on high-speed networks. I don't
think that making it a tunable really improves much, it would be better
to solve the fundamental problems and allowing it be become just a
default option.

Joerg





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