From 396427e3b620196ec108527f6c5d6d0b63ec78fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christophe Dumez <chris@qbittorrent.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:23:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] FEATURE: Fall back to a random port if qBittorrent could not
 listen on the chosen port

---
 Changelog          |  1 +
 src/bittorrent.cpp | 12 ++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 309d59606..243dfd1c3 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
     - FEATURE: Show official documentation when pressing F1 key
     - FEATURE: Search engine plugins now handle HTTP protocol gzip compression
     - FEATURE: Enabled lazy bitfield as a counter-measure for ISP speed throttling
+    - FEATURE: Fall back to a random port if qBittorrent could not listen on the chosen port
     - FEATURE: Announce to all trackers specified for a torrent (µTorrent behavior) (libtorrent >= v0.15 only)
     - FEATURE: Added per-torrent super seeding mode (libtorrent >= v0.15 only)
     - FEATURE: Support for storing symbolic links in .torrent files (libtorrent >= v0.15 only)
diff --git a/src/bittorrent.cpp b/src/bittorrent.cpp
index fa670affb..e993bdd54 100644
--- a/src/bittorrent.cpp
+++ b/src/bittorrent.cpp
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include <QString>
 #include <QTimer>
 #include <QSettings>
+#include <stdlib.h>
 
 #include "filesystemwatcher.h"
 #include "bittorrent.h"
@@ -1496,9 +1497,16 @@ void Bittorrent::readAlerts() {
         }
       }
     }
-    else if (dynamic_cast<listen_failed_alert*>(a.get())) {
+    else if (listen_failed_alert* p = dynamic_cast<listen_failed_alert*>(a.get())) {
       // Level: fatal
-      addConsoleMessage(tr("Couldn't listen on any of the given ports."), QString::fromUtf8("red"));
+      int tried_port = p->endpoint.port();
+      srand(time(0));
+      int fallback_port = tried_port;
+      do {
+        fallback_port = rand() % 64512 + 1024;
+      } while(fallback_port == tried_port);
+      addConsoleMessage(tr("Couldn't listen on port %1, using %2 instead.").arg(QString::number(tried_port)).arg(QString::number(fallback_port)), QString::fromUtf8("red"));
+      setListeningPort(fallback_port);
       //emit portListeningFailure();
     }
     /*else if (torrent_paused_alert* p = dynamic_cast<torrent_paused_alert*>(a.get())) {