Re: UDPv4 port allocation problem

2007-08-23 Thread Rick Jones
Tóth László Attila wrote: Hello, I noticed that it is possible that the kernel allocates the same UDP _Which_ kernel - or rather which rev? There are lots of linux kernels potentially out there... port to an application that was used and closed immediately before the new application got i

UDPv4 port allocation problem

2007-08-23 Thread Tóth László Attila
Hello, I noticed that it is possible that the kernel allocates the same UDP port to an application that was used and closed immediately before the new application got it. This means that applications that do not specify an exact port and rely on the kernel to allocate a port for them might see tr