Re: How to get a free TCP/UDP port

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On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 11:52:55AM +0530, Sriram Neelakanta Subramoney wrote:
> How to dynamically get a free TCP/UDP port that can be used at the
> client's end when connecting to a server[@ a pre-defined destination
> port] over socket. Is there any call available for this??.

You should probably be re-examining your design if you want to initiate
tcp/ip sessions from within the kernel. This is a horrible design -- you
should be writing these applications using the system call interface.
(That is why the system calls exist!)

In userspace, you would use connect() for this task -- and so, if you're
intent on making your sessions from within the kernel, start by looking
for sys_connect(). When you find it, figure out what isn't needed
because your call is coming from kernelspace, not userspace, and
re-implement the important bits that you can't just call.

Best of luck.


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