I'm trying to determine why the default ephemeral port range appears to be 
10000 through 65535 in at least 8.1 through 9.1RC. Documentation regarding the 
lower bound on the range seems inconsistent. The FreeBSD website 
(http://wiki.freebsd.org/SystemTuning) suggests that 
net.inet.ip.portrange.first defaults to 49152, which I don't believe is 
accurate.

The IANA recommends the range be 49152 through 65535 
(http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6056). Is there any particular reason why 
net.inet.ip.portrange.first defaults to 10000?

        - .Dustin

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