Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753857Ab0BUGfB (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:35:01 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:11769 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753335Ab0BUGe7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:34:59 -0500 Message-ID: <4B80D4DB.6040204@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:38:19 +0800 From: Cong Wang User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091001) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Octavian Purdila CC: David Miller , Linux Kernel Network Developers , Linux Kernel Developers , Neil Horman , Eric Dumazet , "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v5 3/3] net: reserve ports for applications using fixed port numbers References: <1266532210-11536-1-git-send-email-opurdila@ixiacom.com> <1266532210-11536-3-git-send-email-opurdila@ixiacom.com> In-Reply-To: <1266532210-11536-3-git-send-email-opurdila@ixiacom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 983 Lines: 26 Octavian Purdila wrote: > This patch introduces /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports which > allows users to reserve ports for third-party applications. > > The reserved ports will not be used by automatic port assignments > (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port number 0). Explicit > port allocation behavior is unchanged. > > Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila > Signed-off-by: WANG Cong > Cc: Neil Horman > Cc: Eric Dumazet > Cc: Eric W. Biederman My test case shows this works as expect, I mean reserving local ports. So, for this one, Acked-by: WANG Cong Thanks for your work! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/