Re: predictable IP ID

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Mon, 4 Oct 1999 18:03:41 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich wrote:

>And I'm sure that other ways to abuse predictable IP ID will appear in the
>future.

And the current IP ++ generation is allowing the world to know the load of
your TCP/IP stack.

>I don't see real performance penalty. I agree that I've added a big amount

It would be nice to write an AVL common code (exactly as I did with the
RB-tree some time ago when I replaced the page-cache and buffer cache
hashtable with two rb-trees). Rewriting the AVL code each time we need it
it's not nice IMHO.

Andrea

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