On Friday, February 25, 2011 05:25:29 pm Ralph Corderoy wrote: > 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 Yup! sincerest apologies. You are of course right - its the 5-tuple that identifies the endpoint. Andy
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