netdev - Re: [PATCHv4 net-next 16/16] sctp: enable udp tunneling socks

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Date:   Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:58:02 +0800
From:   Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>
Cc:     Michael Tuexen <tuexen@...muenster.de>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org" <linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        davem <davem@...emloft.net>, Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 net-next 16/16] sctp: enable udp tunneling socks

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 4:47 PM David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com> wrote:
>
> From: Xin Long
> > Sent: 22 October 2020 04:13
> ...
> > I was thinking that by leaving it to 9899 by default users don't need to
> > know the port when want to use it, and yet I didn't want to add another
> > sysctl member. :D
>
> Could you make 1 mean 9899?
still feel not good, since it's called 'udp_port'.

I will add a note in ip-sysctl.rst:

udp_port - INTEGER
        The listening port for the local UDP tunneling sock. Normally it's
        using the IANA-assigned UDP port number 9899 (sctp-tunneling).
        ...

Thanks.
> So:
>   0 => disabled
>   1 => default port
>   n => use port n
> I doubt that disallowing port 1 is a problem!
>
>         David
>
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