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To: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: How does kernel assign local port? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 25 Oct 1998 16:03:25 +1100."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 23:07:13 -0700
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>I've looked through uipc_syscalls.c and uipc_socket.c to try to
>determine how & where the kernel assigns the local port a client program
>(ie telnet(1)) binds to. I've specifically looked at connect() and
>soconnect() but weren't able to determine how they are assigned. Anyone
>able to give me a hand here?

   in_pcbbind() in /sys/netinet/in_pcb.c

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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