On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 07:41:03AM +0600, CyberPsychotic wrote:
> SOCKHASH_LOCK();
> if (snum == 0) {
> - int rover = tcp_port_rover;
> int low = sysctl_local_port_range[0];
> int high = sysctl_local_port_range[1];
> int remaining = (high - low) + 1;
> + int rover = tcp_port_rover+jiffies%(high-low);
>
> do { rover++;
> if ((rover < low) || (rover > high))
I'm not qualified to comment whether or not randomizing the port numbers
would be a good idea.
However, if you're going to do it, wouldn't it be better to use /dev/random
instead of anything based on the clock? Bad randomness isn't much better
than no randomness.
Have fun,
Avery
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