Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:07:00 +0100
From:      "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matus Harvan <mharvan@inf.ethz.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Subject:   Re: TCP listenall
Message-ID:  <4722B964.5060701@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4722B6A3.6030606@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20070909204148.GB18107@inf.ethz.ch>	<20071026155206.GH1049@styx.ethz.ch> <4722B6A3.6030606@FreeBSD.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
>
> The relay port idea I pointed out in my message about udp catchall 
> would be especially applicable here -- we may not always want 
> catchalls for the entire 16-bit tcp port space.
> ...
> How will inp_tlistenall appear in netstat output? Perhaps assigning a 
> LISTEN_ALL state would be helpful for an administrator to clearly see 
> that a listenall socket is active? Perhaps checking for TCP_LISTENALL 
> set on an unbound socket in tcp_usr_listen() when listen() is called 
> is the way to go instead of, or in addition to, using inp_tlistenall?

P.S. This is probably how you get INET6 support for little cost. Hint 
hint. ;-)

BMS



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4722B964.5060701>