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SubjectRe: [Fwd: Linux RedHat 6.x bug: IPv4/UDP bind() allocates same port number by default]
Nicolas DE METZ-NOBLAT wrote:
> > Nicolas DE METZ-NOBLAT <nmn@pspc7811.cern.ch> wrote:
> > > Only Linux reports twice the same value and this explains other
> > > problems when using UDP protocol, like confused remote servers:
> >
> > Please provide more details about the remote servers that had
> > difficulties with this behavior.
>
> ... a port to Linux of a huge distributed application ...
> I traced this back to the fact that the same port number was
> allocated and the same transaction number was always allocated.
> This resulted in a reject of the RPC transaction - all packets
> being still considered as a repetition of the previous transaction
> and just discarded for this reason.

Which RPC package does that application use? Do you think other
applications written against the same RPC library might share
this problem?
- Dan

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(The above is just my personal opinion; I don't speak for my employer,
except on the occasional talk show.)

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