Regarding Proxy sockets

[Phil Mayers]

On 11/28/2012 09:27 AM, ramakrishna wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using freeradius 2.2 for a while now.
>
> When i start the radius server in debug mode, I observed server creating
> proxy sockets. please find the log below.
>
> * ... adding new socket proxy address * port 61412
>   ... adding new socket proxy address * port 61413
>   ... adding new socket proxy address * port 61414
> *Listening on authentication address * port 1812
> Listening on accounting address * port 1813
>
> What i observed is every time i restart the server, i see the port
> numbers increasing instead of same port numbers being used.
>
> My question is does that mean that the previously used port
> numbers(61409, 61410, 61411) are not freed properly?

No.

The proxy socket doesn't define a port to bind to, since it's a client 
socket. The OS controls the port, and is responsible for it increasing 
over time.

The old ports are freed just fine when the old process exits.