Re: single instance
On 1/16/2013 3:13 AM, Peter Duniho wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:50:05 -0800, Roedy Green wrote:
You ask the OS , please assign me a free port. Here is a UUID. If
anyone asks for a port presenting the same UUID, please give him the
same one, no matter if he is calling from within the machine or
without. With such a scheme, you would not need reserved ports
(except for the port assigning port), and you could not have
collisions. Internally arrays of sockets could be dense. You can
then hard code in UUIDs into apps. Users don't need to worry about
collisions. Perhaps in IPV8.
Since the problem is solveable using the existing mechanisms, I don't see a
compelling reason the above feature should be included in future versions
of IP.
Also, I'm no expert, but I'm not sure that any of the IP specifications
concern themselves with ports at all. That might be at the TCP and UDP
protocol levels, independent of the IP stuff.
Port numbers are indeed in the TCP and UDP header not in the IP header.
Arne
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