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SubjectRe: predictable IP ID
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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