changed subject to highlight the issue. David Stevens <dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > But nothing was listen()'ing on the port and nothing accept()'ed the >> connection. >> >> If you had similar code running on two different machines, each of which >> attempted connections to the other machine, I would expect that they >> would never connect because of the asymetric nature of the TCP SYN, >> SYN/ACK, ACK connection sequence. > > You don't have to listen to do a connect. Two programs (on different > machines or not) that are doing cross connects works, too. > > +-DLS But my socket is unbound and I'm connecting to a loopback address, so I expect the connection to fail if nobody listens on the port I am connecting to. Yet the connections succeedes on the rare occasion when the kernel chooses the source port number that matches the destination. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
