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Date:      Sat, 01 Dec 2012 11:31:31 -0300
From:      Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>
To:        Keith Arner <vornum@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with ephemeral port selection
Message-ID:  <50BA14C3.4070601@gont.com.ar>
In-Reply-To: <CAEo_tUH9LPzPFP-O=317rYEQ3nT66b4biQshV_8=L8hReO_BLg@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CAEo_tUH9LPzPFP-O=317rYEQ3nT66b4biQshV_8=L8hReO_BLg@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi, Keith,

On 11/30/2012 11:09 AM, Keith Arner wrote:
>
>  - behave uniformly whether or not SO_REUSEADDR has been set
>  - allow outgoing connection requests to re-use a local port number, so
>    long as the remaining elements of the tuple (laddr, fport, faddr) are
>    unique

Please take a look at the discussion on how to "steal" incomming
connections in Section 3.1 of RFC 6056.

Cheers,
-- 
Fernando Gont
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