From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Tcp port selection for IPV6.
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:38:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050208203844.779038ca.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050120164529.6d6a5f0b@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net>
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:45:29 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:
> This patch makes TCP over IPV6 select ports the same way the current
> TCPv4 code does. It uses a hash function to provide a starting offset
> and a free running counter to provide seed.
>
> This changes the port selection semantics to match TCPv4 as well.
> If the port is in use but to a different remote address, it will get
> reused. It looks like the TCPv6 code was not updated when the TCPv4
> code changed. Now the code in ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c and ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c are
> almost identical for tcp_hash_connect.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
I've tossed this into my 2.6.12-pending tree.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-09 4:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-21 0:45 [PATCH] Tcp port selection for IPV6 Stephen Hemminger
2005-01-21 0:53 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2005-01-26 6:25 ` David S. Miller
2005-02-09 4:38 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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