Francois-Xavier Le Bail wrote:
> --- Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx> 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
