From: Mark Glines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 17:01:35 -0700
> Following the principle of least astonishment, I think it seems better > to use high, out-of-the-way port numbers regardless of how much RAM the > system has. So, the following patch changes this behavior slightly. > The system still picks a dynamic range depending on the bind hash size, > but now, all ranges start with 32768. I suppose another reasonable way > to do this would be to end all ranges with 61000, or something like > that. All ports above and including 1024 are non-privileged and available to anyone. Applications which have some requirements in this area need to work those things out themselves. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
