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

[Paul Wouters]

On Sun, 24 May 2020, Tuomo Soini wrote:

> 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.

Ah that is true actually. But how does the initiator say the same thing?
It cannot use %any because the connection would not be able to initiate
as it would become a template. I guess we might only support using an
ephemeral port in the responder, and assume the initiator always uses
a static port?

Paul