Re: [PATCH] xprt sharing (was Re: xprt_bindresvport)

[Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:54:58AM +0100, Peter =C5strand wrote:
> > The only thing to worry about now is any talking to the portmapper or
> > mountd from userspace using tcp, which will put the reserved ports in
> > TIME_WAIT state.  This can limit the 'speed' at which we mount many
> > mounts.
>=20
> How about using SO_REUSEADDR?

You cannot use it safely on active (i.e. client) sockets. Consider this

Application A:
	set SO_REUSEADDR
	bind to port 1234
	connect to server foo, port 2049

Application B:
	set SO_REUSEADDR
	bind to port 1234 (succeeds because of REUSEADDR)
	connect to server foo, port 2049: fails with EADDRNOTAVAIL,
		because there already is a connection from
		client:1234 -> foo:2049

Olaf
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Olaf Kirch     | Things that make Monday morning interesting, #2:
okir@suse.de   |        "We have 8,000 NFS mount points, why do we keep
---------------+ 	 running out of privileged ports?"


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