<listen> element of the configuration file

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Tue Mar 6 09:13:59 PST 2007


Luigi Paioro wrote:
> Which means that I can run only one "TCP session". I can guess the 
> reason: the port to use.
> 
> Well, this is only a curiosity... have you ever thought to implement a 
> port increment system? I mean: while port N is occupied then try N+1 for 
> maximum K times...
> 
> There are other troubles or implications I don't see?
> 

It just hasn't been done afaik. I think last time it came up someone 
posted the normal way to ask the OS to assign a port, we just have to 
call bind properly or something. Patches welcome ;-)

Havoc



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