Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] iproute: Add magic cookie to route dump file

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:49:43 -0700

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:55:41 +0400
Pavel Emelyanov <[email-masked]> wrote:

> In order to somehow verify that a blob contains route dump a
> 4-bytes magic is put at the head of the data and is checked
> on restore.
> 
> Magic digits are taken from Portland (OR) coordinates :) Is
> there any more reliable way of generating such?
> 
> Signed-of-by: Pavel Emelyanov <[email-masked]>

I am planning on putting this in because there were no objections.
Any followup updates?