-/*
- * Peer allocation may fail only in serious out-of-memory conditions. However
- * we still can generate some output.
- * Random ID selection looks a bit dangerous because we have no chances to
- * select ID being unique in a reasonable period of time.
- * But broken packet identifier may be better than no packet at all.
+#define IP_IDENTS_SZ 2048u
+struct ip_ident_bucket {
+ atomic_t id;
+ u32 stamp32;
+};
+
+static struct ip_ident_bucket *ip_idents __read_mostly;
+
+/* In order to protect privacy, we add a perturbation to identifiers
+ * if one generator is seldom used. This makes hard for an attacker
+ * to infer how many packets were sent between two points in time.