On Wednesday 03 February 2010 06:30:07 you wrote: > This patch introduces /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports, > it can be used like ip_local_port_range, but this is used to > reserve ports for third-party applications which use fixed > port numbers within ip_local_port_range. > > This only affects the applications which call socket functions > like bind(2) with port number 0, to prevent the kernel getting the ports > within the specified range for them. For applications which use fixed > port number, it will have no effects. It also affects the case where applications do connect, without previously doing bind, right? > > Any comments are welcome. I think it might be useful to allow setting individual ports as reserved, not only ranges, for example by using a bitmap. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html