From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v5 3/3] net: reserve ports for applications using
 fixed port numbers
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:38:19 +0800
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Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
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	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
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To: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
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Octavian Purdila wrote:
> This patch introduces /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports which
> allows users to reserve ports for third-party applications.
> 
> The reserved ports will not be used by automatic port assignments
> (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port number 0). Explicit
> port allocation behavior is unchanged.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>


My test case shows this works as expect, I mean reserving local ports.
So, for this one,

Acked-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>

Thanks for your work!