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Subject: client socket and source port selection
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HI,

For the project i'm doing, i must know how the Linux kernel allocate
sockets source port (from the dynamic range of the (2**16)-1 ports). I
looked on the Web but it's really hard to find the algoritm of the
source port allocation...

Someone maybe know how it's work or if there is a paper on the web that
explain this source port selection ?

Thanks a lot for your help !


Joël.W