Hi,

In message <_A4133@delegate-en.ML_> on 09/14/08(21:36:06) I wrote:
 |In message <_A4131@delegate-en.ML_> on 09/13/08(18:41:30)
 |you "Andre E." <pzyhqbdyi-fjxi26ffzhtr.ml@ml.delegate.org> wrote:
 | |> You can omit PORT commands to reserve ports to be used.  But reserving
 | |> a port is desirable to keep the LISTEN queue alive persistently not to
 | |> drop the connection requests for it when there is no SOCKS-client to
 | |> bind/accept from the port.
 | |Hi.
 | |
 | |I played around with the VSAP protocol as well as with the HTTP ACCEPT 
 | |method
 | |and it works a long as I'm only dealing with one client. This is 
 | |probably due to the fact
 | |that once a client connects to the opened port, this port becomes bound 
 | |by this client
 | |so no other client can connect to this port.
 |
 |To enable multiple-parallel clients to do bind on the same port,
 |you need to do either A) reserving the port with the PORT parameter
 |to be shared in child DeleGate processes, or B) running DeleGate in
 |a single process mode with option "-d+7" or so to share dynamically
 |bound ports among client threads in the process.

Sorry, I noticed B) is not true in the exsisting implementation.
It can be enabled with the enclosed patch.

Cheers,
Yutaka
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  9 9   Yutaka Sato <y.sato@delegate.org> http://delegate.org/y.sato/
 ( ~ )  National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
_<   >_ 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8568 Japan
Do the more with the less -- B. Fuller

*** dist/src/delegate9.8.5-pre1/src/vsap.c	Thu Mar 16 17:07:36 2006
--- ./src/vsap.c	Sun Sep 14 22:33:17 2008
***************
*** 396,403 ****
--- 396,408 ----
  	if( 0 <= (svsock = ReservedPortSock(host,port)) ){
  		daemonlog("D","## RESV_PORT %d\n",svsock);
  		*sharedp = 1;
  	}else
+ 	if( lSINGLEP()
+ 	 && 0 <= (svsock = findopen_port("VSAP",AVStr(host),port,nlisten)) ){
+ 		daemonlog("D","## SHARED_PORT %d\n",svsock);
+ 		*sharedp = 1;
+ 	}else
  	if( 0 <= (svsock = NewPort(lport,AVStr(host),port,toC,nlisten)) ){
  		daemonlog("D","## NEW_PORT %d\n",svsock);
  		*sharedp = 0;
  	}else{
*** dist/src/delegate9.8.5-pre1/src/htaccept.c	Sun Aug 31 20:28:21 2008
--- ./src/htaccept.c	Sun Sep 14 23:11:37 2008
***************
*** 78,85 ****
--- 78,99 ----
  	Xsscanf(req,"%*s %s",AVStr(local));
  	timeout = 10*1000;
  	sprintf(ver,"HTTP/%s",MY_HTTPVER);
  
+ 	if( 1 ){
+ 		extern int ACC_TIMEOUT;
+ 		timeout = ACC_TIMEOUT*1000;
+ 	}
+ 	if( lSINGLEP() ){
+ 		IStr(host,256);
+ 		int port = 0;
+ 		Xsscanf(local,"%[^:]:%d",AVStr(host),&port);
+ 		if( 0 <= (bsock = ReservedPortSock(host,port)) ){
+ 		}else
+ 		if( 0 <= (bsock = findopen_port("HTACC",AVStr(host),port,20)) ){
+ 			bsock = dup(bsock);
+ 		}
+ 	}else
  	bsock = VSocket(Conn,"BIND/HTTP",-1,AVStr(local),AVStr(remote),"listen=1");
  	if( bsock < 0 ){
  		if( S_ADDRNOTAVAIL ){
  			sv1log("%s: should be forwarded to upstream\n",