Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:24:56 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changes to PCBPORTHASH wrt TCP, review needed Message-ID: <20031031222225.E54781@odysseus.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <20031028131329.J19707@odysseus.silby.com> References: <20031027014854.K2023@odysseus.silby.com> <20031028131329.J19707@odysseus.silby.com>
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On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Mike Silbersack wrote: > It's very possible that bind will return a port which can't be used > because it's already in use for that destination lport-laddr-fport-faddr > tuple, so the connect will fail with EADDRINUSE. > > So, it looks like I can't solve this so simply... looks like I'll have to > have the port lookup do IP comparisons as well. > > Mike "Silby" Silbersack After more thought, I've come to the conclusion that it's not easy to do away with the lport hash, and that changes would only benefit certain applications. So, I've given up on the lport reuse issue and refocused on the problem of time_wait sockets clogging up all local ports under certain situations. I did manage to find a good solution for that problem, and it'll be committed pretty soon. Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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