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From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
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Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>,
	Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Subject: Re: TCP listenall
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Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
>
> The relay port idea I pointed out in my message about udp catchall 
> would be especially applicable here -- we may not always want 
> catchalls for the entire 16-bit tcp port space.
> ...
> How will inp_tlistenall appear in netstat output? Perhaps assigning a 
> LISTEN_ALL state would be helpful for an administrator to clearly see 
> that a listenall socket is active? Perhaps checking for TCP_LISTENALL 
> set on an unbound socket in tcp_usr_listen() when listen() is called 
> is the way to go instead of, or in addition to, using inp_tlistenall?

P.S. This is probably how you get INET6 support for little cost. Hint 
hint. ;-)

BMS