On 11/3/05, Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This patch randomizes the port selected on bind() for connections
> to help with possible security attacks. It should also be faster
> in most cases because there is no need for a global lock.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Thanks Stephen, I'll have to rework the generalisation of tcp_v6_get_port
into inet6_csk_get_port (like was done in the v4 case) and the same for
some other functions (hash_connect, etc) but its ok :-)

Applied.

- Arnaldo
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