Regarding Proxy sockets

[ramakrishna]

Thanks Phil.

That clarifies my doubt.


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk>wrote:

> 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.
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Best Regards,
M.Rama Krishna Prasad,
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