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From: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [Patch] ./net/net.c - make Microsoft dns servers happy with random_port() numbers
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:37:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21vftki08.fsf@ohwell.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003081407.01006.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> (Robin Getz's message of "Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:07:00 -0500")

Hi Robin,

> For some reason, (which I can't find any documentation on), if U-Boot
> gives a port number higher than 17500 to a Microsoft DNS server, the 
> server will reply to port 17500, and U-Boot will ignore things (since 
> that isn't the port it asked the DNS server to reply to).
>
> This fixes that by ensuring the random port number is less than 17500.

Can you please put such a comment also in the code?  I believe this to
be useful information when studying the code and not only when going
through changelogs.

Thanks
  Detlev

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-09  8:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-08 19:07 [U-Boot] [Patch] ./net/net.c - make Microsoft dns servers happy with random_port() numbers Robin Getz
2010-03-09  8:37 ` Detlev Zundel [this message]
2010-04-05  7:17 ` Ben Warren

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