On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:38:49 +0200 (CEST) Henrik Nordstrom <hno@marasystems.com> wrote: > From reading the kernel source it seems the local port assignment function > has much to ask, only assigning a source port unless that source port is > not used by any connection on the system irregardless of the source IP. Is > this really true? Yes, currently it is. > If so then any applications rapidly creating new > connections is basically forced to do manual address:port assignments. That's correct. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html