From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mark@glines.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] ip_local_port_range sysctl has annoying default
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 17:06:38 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070511.170638.35663266.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070511170135.7c38615f@chirp>
From: Mark Glines <mark@glines.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-12 0:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-12 0:01 Mark Glines
2007-05-12 0:06 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-05-12 2:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-12 3:18 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-05-14 20:19 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-12 2:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-12 19:10 ` Mark Glines
2007-05-12 19:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-12 19:30 ` Mark Glines
2007-05-12 20:08 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-12 19:19 ` Alan Cox
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[not found] ` <fa.IaUwa4kCMzO0RD0lNwacYsRlgXk@ifi.uio.no>
2007-05-12 1:03 ` Mark Glines
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