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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Tcp port selection for IPV6.
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:38:44 -0800
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To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
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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.