Re: [PATCH] Tcp port selection for IPV6.

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:45:29 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch makes TCP over IPV6 select ports the same way the current
> TCPv4 code does. It uses a hash function to provide a starting offset
> and a free running counter to provide seed.
> 
> This changes the port selection semantics to match TCPv4 as well.
> If the port is in use but to a different remote address, it will get
> reused. It looks like the TCPv6 code was not updated when the TCPv4
> code changed. Now the code in ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c and ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c are
> almost identical for tcp_hash_connect.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>

I've tossed this into my 2.6.12-pending tree.