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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 07:38:19 -0700

> So you are creating sockets just to reserve TCP ports to avoid host
> stack clashes with your offload engine?  Wasn't this approach strongly
> rejected (in the context of iWARP) in the past?

Yes, it was, and likewise similar hacks in other areas will
be rejected similarly.