From: James Yonan <jim@...41...>
Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Allow dynamic choice of source port
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Date: Sun Nov 27 21:28:02 2005
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To: Nielsen <nielsen@...505...>
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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Nielsen wrote:

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> As it is openvpn has no way to allow the kernel to dynamically choose
> a source port for it's connections. If you have two openvpn client
> processes on the same machine both you have to configure lport to
> different ports manually. This patch allows you to specify '--lport 0'
> and get the behaviour of normal programs, where the source port is
> dynamically chosen.
> 
> Not sure if this is an issue for others, but here's the patch in
> case anyone has run into the same issue.

How is this different from simply using --nobind to allocate a dynamic 
port #?

James