[strongSwan-dev] logging: unique connection IDs?

[Tobias Brunner]

Hi Harald,

> if I restart charon, then the connection IDs in the logfile start
> by 1 again, making logfile analysis pretty difficult. The IDs are
> not unique.

Couldn't you e.g. split the log based on messages referring to the
daemon's restart before analyzing it (or consider the timestamps in your
analysis).

> Would it be possible to use a random number for the first ID after
> a restart instead? Still not perfect, but the chance to get unique
> IDs is much higher.

Hm, these are simply static variables initialized to zero (one for IKE
and one for CHILD SAs).  I suppose it would theoretically be possible to
initialize them to a random value as an option somehow.  But we'd have
to make sure they are only initialized once, so wrap-arounds and
concurrency are handled properly, however, we don't have a portable
pthread_once abstraction yet.

Regards,
Tobias