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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] iproute: Add magic cookie to route dump file
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:59:42 -0700
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:55:41 +0400
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> wrote:

> In order to somehow verify that a blob contains route dump a
> 4-bytes magic is put at the head of the data and is checked
> on restore.
> 
> Magic digits are taken from Portland (OR) coordinates :) Is
> there any more reliable way of generating such?
> 
> Signed-of-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
> 

Any magic number is fine as long as it is non-offensive and
unique.