[syslinux] tftpd-hpa source port selection

Alexandre Aractingi aaractingi at libertysurf.fr
Wed Oct 15 10:28:53 PDT 2003


Le mer 15/10/2003 à 19:12, H. Peter Anvin a écrit :
> The TFTP protocol behaves this way to make it easy to implement on 
> machines even with really bizarre UDP stacks.  Whether or not it 
> actually is a win is probably at best debatable, however, there *are* 
> machines which don't handle a connected and an unconnected UDP socket 
> with the same local port number.

Thanks for your answer!
And if my machine can support a connected and an unconnected UDP socket
with the same local port number, is there a way to force tftpd-hpa to
always use 69 as its source port?

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Alexandre Aractingi <aaractingi at libertysurf.fr>




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