ipv4.maxRetryHandling¶

Selects how IPv4 random-consistent-unique handles retry exhaustion.

This parameter applies to IP Address Anonymization Module (mmanon).

Name:: ipv4.maxRetryHandling
Scope:: input
Type:: string
Default:: input=accept-duplicates
Required?:: no
Introduced:: 8.2410.0

Description¶

Controls how random-consistent-unique behaves after the retry limit is reached (see ipv4.limitUniqueMaxRetries). The supported values are:

zero: fall back to zeroing the anonymized bits.
accept-duplicates: keep the last randomized address even if it already exists.

A warning is logged whenever the retry limit is hit.

Input usage¶

module(load="mmanon")
action(type="mmanon" ipv4.mode="random-consistent-unique"
       ipv4.limitUniqueMaxRetries="on" ipv4.maxRetryHandling="zero")

See also¶

IP Address Anonymization Module (mmanon)

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