linux-kernel - Re: [patch 03/19] SUNRPC: avoid choosing an IPMI port for RPC traffic

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Date:	Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:45:53 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org, Justin Forbes <jmforbes@...uxtx.org>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@....linux.org.uk>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Chuck Wolber <chuckw@...ntumlinux.com>,
	Chris Wedgwood <reviews@...cw.f00f.org>,
	Michael Krufky <mkrufky@...uxtv.org>, torvalds@...l.org,
	akpm@...l.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 03/19] SUNRPC: avoid choosing an IPMI port for RPC
	traffic

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 20:59 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >Some hardware uses port 664 for its hardware-based IPMI listener.  Teach
> >the RPC client to avoid using that port by raising the default minimum port
> >number to 665.
> 
> Eh, that does look more like a quick hack. What if there were enough
> manufacturers around to use various parts, like manuf. A using 664, B using 800
> and C using 1000? Then the port range would have to be cut down again and
> again.
> 
> 
> 	-`J'

Feel free to tell the board manufacturers that they are idiots, and
should not design boards that hijack specific ports without providing
the O/S with any means of detecting this, but in the meantime, it _is_
the case that they are doing this.

Cheers,
  Trond
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