Technical Q&A NW25
Handing Off TCP Connections to a Different Port


Q: I'm implementing a passive TCP connection and would like to know whether this connection can hand off the connection to a different port address?

A: No, the hand-off connection endpoint must be bound to the same address as the endpoint which passed off the connection. This is an XTI requirement as discussed in Appendix B of the XTI specification, Section B.3.

[May 14 1996]


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