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From: Pete French <petefrench@keithprowse.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:54:16 +0100
Subject: Re: Possible portrange.randomized problems?
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> 3.  Does setting net.inet.ip.portrange.randomized=0 solve the problem for
> you?

Just to confirm, this does indeed seem to make the problem go away!
Do you want me to file a (very indistinct) pr on the subject ? Where
do we go from here ?

Good that a workaround exists though - I can upgrade all the other
machines to 4.10 now as long as I turn off the randomising.

-pcf.