Hi Andrew, > Once a connection is made (an incoming connect request to an allowed > port) accept(2) will grab another port so that the original port is > free for further connect requests.
For the benefit of others, since I know you really know this already :-), accept(2) creates another *socket* to handle the connection that's been made, not another port, so further connection requests on the existing socket can be accepted. The port number is the same for both sockets; that's fine since the 5-tuple overall with be distinct between the two. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
