On 01/27/2012 08:13 AM, Philip Homburg wrote: > Given the current trends, just a random number would be good enough. But the > old RFCs assumed that a sequence number was used to maintain uniqueness.
May I ask what the "current trends" are? And no, just a random number is not good enough, particularly if you're talking about the IPv4 IP ID. (talk about collisions). (For IPv6, I suggest that you talk with davem@, which noted that we would not even want such a scheme for the IPv6 (i.e., 32-bit long) fragment ID). Thanks, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
