[PATCH] Make hashsize ip_conntrack parameter writable

Amin Azez azez at ufomechanic.net
Tue Oct 11 11:12:34 CEST 2005


Harald Welte wrote:
> JFYI, here's an incremental (yet untested) patch that adds support to
> reinitialize the random seed when reisizing

Just for my own education, why is the seed random?
Doe this mean that we randonly get a "bad" seed?

It just reminds me of the story at:
http://www.karrels.org/Ed/ACM/ec97/prob_5.html

and random things in the kernel smells like hard to reproduce errors.
Of course, possibly we don't actually mean "random" here, hence my
desire for er... enlightenment.

Sam




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