TCP listenall
Bruce M. Simpson
bms at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 26 21:07:02 PDT 2007
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
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