On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:00:18PM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > Unless eri gets to it first I will. > > see https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5017 > > If you have a server, you can put an arbitrary number of clients on > the same port number because they all have different addresses. > > However in the case of a client accessing multiple servers we are > limited to 65535 sessions because we strictly don't allow the same > port to be used more than once. This is silly because TCP is a > symmetrical protocol and of it works for the server it should work for > the client. > > So this patch changes the allocation of ports to allow the client to > use a port that has been used before as long as the previous port user > is not talking to the same host/port. This removes the limitation of a > freebsd machine being only capable of contacting 65000 hosts in a > single port shutdown timeout period. With modern machines capable of > initiating MILLIONS of sessions per second, having a limitation of > 65000 per 2 minutes is a bit silly. > > > Please read the patch if you suspect this will have a bad effect of > any sort. Once the session is started there is no record as to who > started it so any issues would have to be in the startup phase.
Good. Can you use also destination port and source IP in same way as destination address? _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
