Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Oct 1999 11:21:04 +0400 | From | Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich <> | Subject | Re: predictable IP ID |
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Hi,
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 11:29:03PM +0400, A.N.Kuznetsov wrote: > BTW why did you restore htons on ident? Is it not useless?
It's useless from the protocol point of view. But it's much more convenient for manual tcpdump control. I prefer to be able to check easily that id generation works as expected.
> And is ident=1 is really better than 0?
I really hate any special values :-) For IP IDs I've already seen special value 0 in another place. If I'm forced to use special values they should at least be different for different purposes. Otherwise we may create a real mess by an accident.
Best wishes Andrey
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