On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 17:37 +1100, Jon Maxwell wrote: > Prerequisites for this to happen: > 1) The local tcp port range must be exhausted. > 2) A process must have called bind() followed by connect() for all > local ports.
How the bind() is done exactly ? How SO_REUSEADDR is used ? > 3) A different process calls connect() only which returns -EADDRNOTAVAIL. > 4) The system more than 1 interface configured. > > If a system has 2 IP Addresses and all local tcp ports are in use > for connection from IP Address (1). Connecting to the same ports > via IP Address (2) should work based on the 4 tuple rule. But it > fails under this condition. I do not think this is generally true. If process called bind() to reserve a port, another process should not be able to use the same port. Do you have a test program exhibiting the problem ? Thanks ! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
