TCP source port reuse problems

Mike Silbersack silby at silby.com
Mon Mar 5 01:06:32 UTC 2007


On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> Disabling net.inet.ip.portrange.randomized appears to work around this
> but is undesirable for other reasons.

I should add that in the short term, that does seem to be the only 
solution.

Fernando Gont has some ideas on how to make port reuse happen less 
frequently, so maybe we'll have those in place for FreeBSD 6.3 if all goes 
well.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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