how to get any available port

[Paul Rubin]

Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> writes:
> > Hmm...perhaps he is trying to do a transfer thing like many chat
> > programs do. Instead of sending large files across a server, you
> > "Direct Connect" and send the file directly. :shrugs:
> 
> So how does that require binding the client end of a TCP connection?

In the nomenclature of some of these applications, that kind of transfer
is called a client to client connection.  Both ends are called clients.