Re: Raw IP NSE Functionality

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 07:59:50PM -0500, kx wrote:
> Oh no! That is my fault.
>
> I recommended math.randomseed(os.time()) to Kris because when I ran
> the ip-id script it was generating the same 6 source port/tcp sequence
> numbers each time I ran Nmap and I wanted to see different values.
>
> What would be a better way to seed that? Something like os.time() plus
> the IP plus the port or something?
>
> Or could nse call math.randomseed(os.time()) once before any scripts run?

I think the last option is the best. There are a couple of other scripts
that currently do math.randomseed(os.time()) too.

David Fifield
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