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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: efficient port randomisation (revised)
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:01:21 -0800
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On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:52:52 -0800
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:49:30 -0800
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> > These are run on a relatively slow machine (2 way Pentium III 850Mhz)
> > and it looks like the results are no change (in the noise).
> 
> Or averaged out, about 1ms more expensive.

We could always benchmark special the loopback case since there is
no risk of man-in-the-middle attacks.