Deprecating portreserve

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Wed Jun 29 17:34:35 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:27:47PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:

> Portreserve is also useful to reserve (not let the OS make use of)
> ports that are needed by an embedded management controller that
> intercepts delivery of packets to the port and delivers them to the
> BMC (e.g. the PowerEdge 1955 BMC).  While we've done away with that
> behavior in newer systems, such are still in production use.

Is that port number exposed to the OS in any way?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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