On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 15:49 +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hi Eric, > > On 02/02/2016 12:35 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Documentation for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT socket option > > added in linux-4.2 > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=90c337da1524863838658078ec34241f45d8394d > > Thanks for the patch. I've applied, and tweaked a little. > It would be good to add a couple of sentences about > why this option is useful and what use case it allows. > Could you come up with something? Well, port exhaustion is something hard to explain in a few words ;) https://idea.popcount.org/2014-04-03-bind-before-connect/ is explaining the problem quite well (but was written before IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT came) Sure, I will post something about SO_MAX_PACING_RATE Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
