Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v5 3/3] net: reserve ports for applications using fixed port numbers

From: Cong Wang <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:38:19 +0800

Octavian Purdila wrote:
> This patch introduces /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports which
> allows users to reserve ports for third-party applications.
> 
> The reserved ports will not be used by automatic port assignments
> (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port number 0). Explicit
> port allocation behavior is unchanged.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Neil Horman <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email-masked]>

My test case shows this works as expect, I mean reserving local ports.
So, for this one,

Acked-by: WANG Cong <[email-masked]>

Thanks for your work!