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Subject: Re: Random Sequence Numbers
From: Lowell Gilbert (lowellworld.std.com)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 08:29:35 CST


Omachonu Ogali <oogaliintranova.net> writes:

> I don't know if anyone else attempted, but I whipped up a little patch for
> FreeBSD that randomizes the sequence/acknowledgment numbers sent by TCP
> instead of incrementing it by one each time. Apply using 'patch'.

That's very, uh, creative, but wouldn't randomizing other header
fields be just as effective, if not more so?

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