Francois-Xavier Le Bail wrote: > --- Andrew Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>It it wasn't for Windows' broken behaviour in >>letting any port be >>ephemeral, that might make some sense. >> >>I have been forced to set registry values to make >>Windows behave more >>like *nix. Reserve all ports below 32768. Make >>ephemerals be 32768-49151. >> >>Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 >> >> > > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters] > > "ReservedPorts"=hex(7):31,00,2d,00,33,00,32,00,37,00,36,00,37,00,00,00,00,00 > >>"MaxUserPort"=dword:0000bfff >> >>Even that doesn't protect all "REGISTERED PORT >>NUMBERS". That would >>require setting "ReservedPorts" to be 1-49151, and >>"MaxUserPort" to >>something like 57344 (8192 available ephemerals) or >>61440 (12288 >>available ephemerals). > > > Windows' broken behaviour ? It's the same with Linux > 2.4.27, 2.6.16, ...
I have several Linux, AIX, Solaris and HP-UX versions. None of them by default allow ephemeral ports below 16384, and most of them do not allow ephemerals below 32768. -- There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. -- Dr. Who _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev