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authorkris <kris@FreeBSD.org>2001-06-01 10:02:28 +0000
committerkris <kris@FreeBSD.org>2001-06-01 10:02:28 +0000
commite1524eb20ca44614d4942a0b92929a02e67dce44 (patch)
tree9bd8aa0fc8cabc5d0cc01510f30e42d4a12277e2 /sys/netinet/ip_var.h
parent83f8b7087fd25f91158a6a096fad46b33b513773 (diff)
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Add ``options RANDOM_IP_ID'' which randomizes the ID field of IP packets.
This closes a minor information leak which allows a remote observer to determine the rate at which the machine is generating packets, since the default behaviour is to increment a counter for each packet sent. Reviewed by: -net Obtained from: OpenBSD
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/netinet/ip_var.h')
-rw-r--r--sys/netinet/ip_var.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sys/netinet/ip_var.h b/sys/netinet/ip_var.h
index bc8b797..6354d84 100644
--- a/sys/netinet/ip_var.h
+++ b/sys/netinet/ip_var.h
@@ -138,7 +138,9 @@ struct route;
struct sockopt;
extern struct ipstat ipstat;
+#ifndef RANDOM_IP_ID
extern u_short ip_id; /* ip packet ctr, for ids */
+#endif
extern int ip_defttl; /* default IP ttl */
extern int ipforwarding; /* ip forwarding */
extern struct route ipforward_rt; /* ip forwarding cached route */
@@ -164,6 +166,10 @@ void ip_slowtimo __P((void));
struct mbuf *
ip_srcroute __P((void));
void ip_stripoptions __P((struct mbuf *, struct mbuf *));
+#ifdef RANDOM_IP_ID
+u_int16_t
+ ip_randomid __P((void));
+#endif
int rip_ctloutput __P((struct socket *, struct sockopt *));
void rip_ctlinput __P((int, struct sockaddr *, void *));
void rip_init __P((void));
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