[e2e] ICMP & TCP segments with IP ID = 0?

Alex Cannara cannara at attglobal.net
Wed May 16 16:38:16 PDT 2001


This is a narrow view.  Since IP is not LAN aware, it's a good feature
to have a unique identifier in any network-layer stream to allow loop
resolution, which is otherwise difficult.

Alex


Jerome Etienne wrote:
> 
> 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 ?
> 
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