On 11/12/2012 02:57 PM, Dustin Wenz wrote: > 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.
I had produced the patch that extended the ephemeral port range in FreeBSD. My original patch extended the ephemeral port range to 1024-65535. However, it was noted that X uses ports in the range 1024-10000, and hence it was better to exclude that port range from the ephemeral port range. > The IANA recommends the range be 49152 through 65535 > (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6056). IANA *used* to recommend that range. In RFC 6056 we recommend implementations to use the largest possible port range -- ideally 1024-65536. > Is there any particular reason > why net.inet.ip.portrange.first defaults to 10000? Please see above. Cheers, -- Fernando Gont e-mail: ferna...@gont.com.ar || fg...@si6networks.com PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1 _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
