Hi Klaus,

the fix it's on cvs - any feedback will be helpful :)

regards,
bogdan

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:

Hi Klaus,

I already tested bind with port 0 on linux and BSD kernels and works - but I have no access other OS, like solaris for example. if same scheme is used in netcat, I would say is a good argument to for it (until proved otherwise :-/) - if no force_socket is used, the first listening TCP address will be used; otherwise the IP from forced socket.

what I'm still looking for is to try to maintain the same interface in case of forwarding from TCP2TCP - if received over TCP on interface1, use the same (if not forced) interface to fwd.

hopefully the code will be ready today.

regards,
bogdan

Klaus Darilion wrote:

Klaus Darilion wrote:

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
 > I know no way to bind only to an address but letting the kernel to

choose the port (a portable solution)......




What about setting the port to 0? I tried it and it works on Linux. Do you think that this does not work on other OS?



I reviewed the source code of netcat (which is quiet portable) and netcat also does it this way:
  socket()
  bind()
  connect()

When binding, the "dynamic" part (address or port) will be set to 0.

I think we should also implement this in openser. If openser listen only on one interface the bind logic is simple: take this IP address.

If openser listens to multiple IP addresses we can just use the first IP address, or we can have a logic which chooses the best IP address (e.g. the IP address, on which the request was received).

regards
klaus



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