netdev - Re: [PATCH 0 of 5] IPv6: Fix temporary address support

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Date:	Tue, 1 Apr 2008 23:55:18 +0200
From:	Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@...-lyon.org>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, pekkas@...core.fi, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 5] IPv6: Fix temporary address support

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:15:40PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote:
> In article <20080328003221.GE8574@...-lyon.fr> (at Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:32:21 +0100), Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@...-lyon.org> says:
> 
> > Do you have an opinion about my PS (DESYNC_FACTOR not being random) ?
> 
> Oh, that's a bug ...

Ok. What is the best way to generate a random number ? get_random_bytes
and modulo ? (the distribution won't be ok, but I guess it's not really
a problem for this case).

> and, max_desync_factor is not effective.

what do you mean by that ?

regards,

Benoit
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