netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: introduce ip_local_unbindable

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Date:   Mon, 9 Dec 2019 15:42:16 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
Cc:     Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Network Development Mailing List 
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Sean Tranchetti <stranche@...eaurora.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Linux SCTP <linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org>,
        Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: introduce ip_local_unbindable_ports sysctl

On Mon,  9 Dec 2019 14:45:30 -0800, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> Example use cases might be:
>  - a port being stolen by the nic for remote serial console, remote
>    power management or some other sort of debugging functionality
>    (crash collection, gdb, direct access to some other microcontroller
>    on the nic or motherboard, remote management of the nic itself).

This use case makes me a little uncomfortable.

Could you elaborate what protocols and products are in need of this
functionality?

Why can't the NIC just get its own IP like it usually does with NCSI?