[En-Nut-Discussion] local tcp port randomisation

[Ole Reinhardt]

Hi All,

wow, thread I've kicked off a long thread while I was out of office in
the meantime....

> I know that you suggested to keep the variable uninitialized. But this
> is not standard C. It's highly compiler/linker dependent. Anyway, it
> inspired me to change my suggested code again:
> 
>  ticks = (uint16_t) NutGetMillis();
>  if (port)
>    port += (uint16_t) ((ticks & 0x000F) | 1);
>  else
>    port = ticks;
>  port |= 0xC000;

I would be fine with this for the first instance as long as we do not
have a real random number.

Am I right, that we could all agree, to take this as an intermediate
solution?

Thanks for all your comments and suggestions!

bye,

Ole


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