Thanks! S. On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 08:13 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > > When a tcp (or udp) connection is setup, the client is allocated a > > source port - a so-called ephemeral port (this can be seen in the Local > > Address column of netstat). > > > > Out of interest, I wouldn't mind looking at the code that > > pseudo-randomly allocates this port number. Can anyone point me in the > > direction of the directory (or even file) I should look at? I'm not > > very familiar with the layout of the kernel code. > > LXR (Linux Cross Reference) is a really good resource: > > http://lxr.linux.no/linux > > Searching for ephemeral results in (among others): > > http://lxr.linux.no/linux/drivers/char/random.c#L1567 > > which I think may be what you are looking for. > > The hard way to do this of course would be just grab an unzip a source > code tarball, cd into it and then: > > grep -r ephemeral . > > and see where that leads you. > > Have fun :-). > > Erik > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Erik de Castro Lopo > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting > than the question of whether a submarine can swim." -- edsger dijkstra -- Thanks,
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