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ROPE Language Reference - "$ip_id"

The "$ip_id" register contains the idetification nunber from the packet being inspected. This is a read-only, integer register.

RFC_791 describes this value like this..

Identification:  16 bits

 An identifying value assigned by the sender to aid in assembling the
 fragments of a datagram.

See Also

RFC_791, $ip_check, $ip_daddr, $ip_dont_frag, $ip_frag_off, $ip_ihl, $ip_protocol, $ip_saddr, $ip_tos, $ip_tot_len, $ip_ttl, $ip_version