RE: TIME_WAIT Assassination in FreeBSD???

2011-09-19 Thread Jarrod Lee Petz
Hi Daniel, Thank you for the information. I agree with your comment below. " But if you're simply running the ftp client on an otherwise idle host, and two subsequent bind() calls get assigned the same 'random' port, I'd say the port randomization is not working properly :)" Does anyone have any

RE: TIME_WAIT Assassination in FreeBSD???

2011-09-07 Thread Jarrod Lee Petz
Hi All, Thanks everyone for your input. As promised(although a bit late), I tested this on FreeBSD to see how it would react. As I suspected it did encounter the same problem. There is a few exceptions though. 1. The port randomization seems a bit less likely to choose the same port twice on Free

RE: TIME_WAIT Assassination in FreeBSD???

2011-09-03 Thread Jarrod Lee Petz
does different. If it doesn't well, I'll have another test case and a little more insight. Regards Jarrod -Original Message- From: Doug Barton [mailto:do...@freebsd.org] Sent: Sunday, 4 September 2011 9:35 AM To: Erik Trulsson Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org; p...@nisshoko.net;

RE: TIME_WAIT Assassination in FreeBSD???

2011-09-02 Thread Jarrod Lee Petz
when doing multiple active FTP data connections & encounter the same issue. Regards Jarrod -Original Message- From: Doug Barton [mailto:do...@freebsd.org] Sent: Saturday, 3 September 2011 9:58 AM To: p...@nisshoko.net Cc: Jarrod Lee Petz; freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: TI

TIME_WAIT Assassination in FreeBSD???

2011-09-02 Thread Jarrod Lee Petz
Hi All, This is a repost (to mailing list) of my forum post here. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=26075 All links to RFCs can be found in that forum post. Please excuse my lack of mailing list decorum or ASCII formatting (I am new here). In my day to day work I have just run into a p