Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] nfs : patch to snoop fhandle to filenames

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 03:06:20 -0800
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 10:01:33PM +1100, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> Yes this includes all previous patches (as of the last weeks) for filename
> snooping.
> 32 bits were arbitrarily choosen, 16bit could have been just as fine,

Actually, I was saying that 16 bits, at least with Sun's hashing
function, *wasn't* fine in captures I've seen:

> > Sun's snoop generates a 16-bit hash; unfortunately, from personal
> > experience, I can testify that their hashing mechanism is not good
> > enough to avoid collisions in real life captures, which is a nuisance.