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From: Roberto Nibali <ratz@drugphish.ch>
To: "joël Winteregg" <joel.winteregg@eivd.ch>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: client socket and source port selection
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:32:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41ABA38E.3010507@drugphish.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1101576123.744.31.camel@debian>

Hello,

> 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...

Check the source ;). There is a proc-fs entry which relates to the 
source port range setting. Over this entry point you get in case of TCP 
sockets to ../net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:tcp_v4_get_port(...). For UDP sockets 
you need to peek into ../net/ipv4/udp.c:udp_v4_get_port().

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

Not likely, but reading the source should help. You can set the local 
port range via /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range. It's documented.

HTH and best regards,
Roberto Nibali, ratz
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-29 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-27 17:22 client socket and source port selection joël Winteregg
2004-11-27 19:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-29 22:32 ` Roberto Nibali [this message]

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