Re: [PATCH] turn RANDOM_IP_ID into a sysctl

[Gordon Bergling <gbergling@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> 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.
>  

I think your right that fundamental problems should be solved, but I 
personal would like to have a tunable which
is per default inactive and can be changed at runtime without the need 
to recompile the kernel.

I don't have enough understanding about the problems on high-speed 
networks so I can't get a better solution for now.

best regards,

   Gordon

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