From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 6 12:53:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E0D816A41F for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 12:53:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ale@FreeBSD.org) Received: from andxor.it (relay.andxor.it [195.223.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A44543D67 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 12:53:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ale@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 83940 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2005 12:53:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.178.2?) (a.premoli@andxor.it@81.174.31.42) by andxor.it with SMTP; 6 Nov 2005 12:53:41 -0000 Message-ID: <436DFCD4.6010207@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 13:53:40 +0100 From: Alex Dupre User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marco Trentini References: <20051106113230.GD14434@einstein.lab> In-Reply-To: <20051106113230.GD14434@einstein.lab> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A little question in the config chapter (handbook) X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 12:53:46 -0000 Marco Trentini wrote: > The question is about last sentence of this section ("Some > firewalls may block ...."). While net.inet.ip.portrange.first > should be lowered when some firewall in general may block > ranges of low-numbered ports? I think it should be increased, > or not? Not increased and not lowered. It is recommended to 'not' touch it and in particular to 'not' lower it. Fixed, thanks! -- Alex Dupre