Problems with ephemeral port selection

[Fernando Gont]

Hi, Keith,

On 11/30/2012 11:09 AM, Keith Arner wrote:
>
>  - behave uniformly whether or not SO_REUSEADDR has been set
>  - allow outgoing connection requests to re-use a local port number, so
>    long as the remaining elements of the tuple (laddr, fport, faddr) are
>    unique

Please take a look at the discussion on how to "steal" incomming
connections in Section 3.1 of RFC 6056.

Cheers,
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Fernando Gont
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