[e2e] ICMP & TCP segments with IP ID = 0?
Jerome Etienne
jerome at zeroknowledge.com
Wed May 16 10:14:56 PDT 2001
As far as i know the IPv4 ID is used only for the reassembly.
Is there anything else which assume things on the ID value ?
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:24:11PM -0400, Craig Partridge wrote:
>
> In message <20010516111231.A16714 at host-186.dyn.dev.zks.net>, Jerome Etienne wri
> tes:
>
> >what is so evil in setting the IPv4 id to 0, assuming the DF bit is set ?
>
> I said it was "evil" because it is not in compliance with the specifications
> (namely RFC791 and 1122).
>
> Interestingly enough, while RFC 1122 certainly assumes that a new identifier is
> normally required for each datagram, it doesn't say so.
>
> But RFC 791 is quite clear:
>
> The originating protocol module of
> an internet datagram sets the identification field to a value that
> must be unique for that source-destination pair and protocol for the
> time the datagram will be active in the internet system.
>
> So while 0 is a valid value, you can't repeat it for the lifetime of
> a datagram or so (RFC 1122 permits reuse in the narrow case of retransmitting
> exactly the same data).
>
> Craig
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