Re: Small kernel for sun3

[email protected] Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:33:25 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sun3
Message-ID <497c07b5.iXTXBWdqcxIsLp7K%[email protected]>
> > Its almost worth keeping the old netinet/ip_id.c around for
> > conditional compiling for install and very low memory kernels...
>
> Well, you could allocate the array dynamically but using the old
> ip_id code we'll lead to predictable sequence numbers again.

How much randomness is actually needed?  Could it be obtained by
harvesting entropy as needed instead of dedicating a huge array?