Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 03/19] SUNRPC: avoid choosing an IPMI port for RPC traffic | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:45:53 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 20:59 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >Some hardware uses port 664 for its hardware-based IPMI listener. Teach > >the RPC client to avoid using that port by raising the default minimum port > >number to 665. > > Eh, that does look more like a quick hack. What if there were enough > manufacturers around to use various parts, like manuf. A using 664, B using 800 > and C using 1000? Then the port range would have to be cut down again and > again. > > > -`J'
Feel free to tell the board manufacturers that they are idiots, and should not design boards that hijack specific ports without providing the O/S with any means of detecting this, but in the meantime, it _is_ the case that they are doing this.
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