Re: Request for more intelligent local port allocation algorithm

2019-02-06 Thread David King via freebsd-stable
Just to add to this, if anyone is doing some work on the outbound tcp connection, could they also have a look at the bug here https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210726 Thanks! On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 15:15, Paul wrote: > Hi dev team, > > It's not a secret that when application is

Request for more intelligent local port allocation algorithm

2019-02-06 Thread Paul
Hi dev team, It's not a secret that when application is trying to establish new TCP connection, without first binding a socket to specific local interface address, OS handles that automatically. Unfortunately there is a catch, that lies in a different logic of local port allocation: (1) when