Re: [suse-programming-e] Multiple sessions from the same source port

Greg Freemyer wrote:

I don't know how to do it programatically, but it would not be a violation of tcp/ip.

tcp/ip just requires that one of four values be unique:

source host, source port dest host, dest port.

If any one of those values is unique, then you have a diferent/unique socket.

Well, I'm not sure either how to programatically do this. The article I'm reading, is about NAT and P2P applications. When it discusses about "cone NAT", it describes how a machine (behind NAT) can have 2 sessions to 2 different dst_ip. The machine behind NAT uses the same src_ip:src_port for both sessions. Regards, Verdi -- Sparen beginnt mit GMX DSL: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl