From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965265AbWFAGS3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 02:18:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751814AbWFAGS2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 02:18:28 -0400 Received: from gw.openss7.com ([142.179.199.224]:53394 "EHLO gw.openss7.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751813AbWFAGS1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 02:18:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 00:18:25 -0600 From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" To: Evgeniy Polyakov Cc: David Miller , draghuram@rocketmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question about tcp hash function tcp_hashfn() Message-ID: <20060601001825.A21730@openss7.org> Reply-To: bidulock@openss7.org Mail-Followup-To: Evgeniy Polyakov , David Miller , draghuram@rocketmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <20060531090301.GA26782@2ka.mipt.ru> <20060531035124.B3065@openss7.org> <20060531105814.GB7806@2ka.mipt.ru> <20060531.114127.14356069.davem@davemloft.net> <20060601060424.GA28087@2ka.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20060601060424.GA28087@2ka.mipt.ru>; from johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru on Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 10:04:24AM +0400 Organization: http://www.openss7.org/ Dsn-Notification-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Evgeniy, On Thu, 01 Jun 2006, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > for (i=0; i saddr = num2ip(get_random_byte(), get_random_byte(), get_random_byte(), get_random_byte()); > sport = get_random_word(); You still have a problem: you cannot use a pseudo-random number generator to generate the sample set as the pseudo-random number generator function itself can interact with the hash. Try iterating through all 2**48 values or at least a sizeable representative subset.