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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Is 64k bind patch making bad assumption?
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:35:15 -0800
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The patch to allow more that 64k connections is assuming that
all IP addresses on a machine have the same connectivity and policy.
I can think of several cases where this is not true:
  1. Server machine with public IP's for connections and private IP's
     for backend database connection
  2. Applications where certain IP's are required for security
     protocols
  3. Machines doing policy based routing

Doesn't this patch change/break this?