Re: ISSUE: Checkgroups control messages

[Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thorfinn <thorfinn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 640kb should be enough for anyone. Um. :-)
>
> That is, yes, 32 bit unsigned integer is better, not 15 bit.

Just to clarify, the current draft has no limit at all.  I think it's safe
and reasonable to add a limit of 2^32 - 1, but I'm always nervous about
adding limits on values because you never know when you might want them to
be larger later.

On the other hand, Julien has a good point that implementers aren't going
to add a bigint implementation just to check sequence numbers.

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Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>