Le lundi 29 novembre 2010 à 17:04 +0000, John Haxby a écrit :

Hello,

Please forgive me if this is a stupid question, but is there any 
particular reason why the source port allocation in 
__inet_hash_connect() shouldn't use the same random allocation that 
inet_csk_get_port() uses?  The latter, of course, is used when bind() 
doesn't specify a source port but the implicit "bind" for a connect() 
gets its port allocated by __inet_hash_connect().

jch

autobind vs bind

bind() gives more information, like local address (if any)

autobind(), we dont know local address, it'll be chose later by routing.