[Swan-dev] "ip: add .any_port to ip_protoport, seems tcp/0 and tcp/%any are subtly"

[Tuomo Soini]

On Fri, 22 May 2020 14:00:54 -0400 (EDT)
Paul Wouters <paul at nohats.ca> wrote:

> >    ip: add .any_port to ip_protoport, seems tcp/0 and tcp/%any are
> > subtly different  
> 
> Warning. A connection containing %any (i think even in protoports=)
> become a template and therefor cannot initiate. That's a limit in
> our implementation. I think most of the tcp/0 is really a tcp/%any but
> we need to be able to initiate" workaround.

tcp/%any means any single port proposed by remote. tcp/0 is tcp/all
ports. Most cases of tcp/0 do not work at all and do not mean tcp/%any.
Or did I understand what you said wrong?

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