random ip id

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Oct 09), Jeremy Baggs said:
> I have a firewall with a small CF installation of FreeBSD 5.2.1 (post
> 20040814).  It is missing the sysctl variable: net.inet.ip.random_id. 
> I am wondering if one of the libraries or kernel objects I ripped out
> to minimize the install could be the culprit for this.  Any clues
> would b e appreciated...

That sysctl was added in FreeBSD 5.3.  You may be able to get the same
functionality in 5.2.1 with the RANDOM_IP_ID kernel option, but you
should probably upgrade to 5.4.

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	Dan Nelson
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