netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 0/4] Improve bind(addr, 0) behaviour.

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Date:   Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:52:57 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.co.jp>, davem@...emloft.net,
        kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, edumazet@...gle.com
Cc:     kuni1840@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        osa-contribution-log@...zon.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 0/4] Improve bind(addr, 0) behaviour.



On 3/10/20 1:05 AM, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> Currently we fail to bind sockets to ephemeral ports when all of the ports
> are exhausted even if all sockets have SO_REUSEADDR enabled. In this case,
> we still have a chance to connect to the different remote hosts.
> 
> These patches add net.ipv4.ip_autobind_reuse option and fix the behaviour
> to fully utilize all space of the local (addr, port) tuples.
> 


Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Thanks.