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Date:      Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:45:19 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com>
Cc:        Vlad Galu <Vlad.Galu@rdsnet.ro>
Subject:   Re: ftp
Message-ID:  <xzpvfrofz9s.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <3F6AFF42.2010403@sitetronics.com> (Devon H. O'Dell's message of "Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:06:10 %2B0200")
References:  <20030917084415.85385.qmail@web41808.mail.yahoo.com> <3F6820D9.9040702@sitetronics.com> <20030919125510.0BD5443FD7@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <3F6AFF42.2010403@sitetronics.com>

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"Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> writes:
> > > Simply change net.inet.ip.portrange.hifirst and
> > > net.inet.ip.portrange.hilast, which default to the following values:
> > > net.inet.ip.portrange.hifirst: 49152
> > > net.inet.ip.portrange.hilast: 65535
> > I haven't examined the bsdftpd source, does it read the sysctl settings=
 and
> > behave accordingly ?
> Yes, this was my implication here. You can change these MIBs and
> restart the ftpd. More information is in the manpages on the subject ;)

All ftpd does is set a flag which causes the kernel to pick a port
number in the appropriate range, thus there is no need to restart ftpd
for the changes to take effect.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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