Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Nov 1999 20:20:55 -0800 | From | Dan Kegel <> | Subject | Re: [Fwd: Linux RedHat 6.x bug: IPv4/UDP bind() allocates same port number by default] |
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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
-- (The above is just my personal opinion; I don't speak for my employer, except on the occasional talk show.)
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