On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 08:50:30 -0600, "Todd C. Miller" wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 14:34:40 -0400, "Ted Unangst" wrote: > > > will this cause problems if a number repeats? we've seen problems with that > > before, where you get a sequence like 4, 7, 4 and then bad things happen. > > Yes, that is why it currently just increments. A linear congruential > generator like we use for IP sequence numbers might work better.
Replying to myself... An LCG is probably overkill. For IPv4 sequence IDs we just use a shuffle. - todd
