[openib-general] Re: SDP port spaces (was: port_num)

Fabian Tillier ftillier at silverstorm.com
Thu Mar 16 10:37:41 PST 2006


On 3/16/06, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> Quoting r. Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com>:
> > Does SDP need to coordinate its use of port numbers with anything else?
>
> libsdp does this sometimes:
>
> - create 2 sockets
> - bind tcp socket to port 0
> - get the port
> - bind sdp socket to the same port
>
> For this trick to work we must be able to bind same port for both TCP and SDP.

Except this shouldn't work if TCP gets rerouted to SDP - in that case
both sockets are trying to use the same port, right?

- Fab



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