Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:48:40 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@freebsd.org> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Heads up, a bit: ephemeral port range changes Message-ID: <20020403214840.GA89405@madman.nectar.cc> In-Reply-To: <20020403211259.B59420-100000@patrocles.silby.com> References: <20020403211259.B59420-100000@patrocles.silby.com>
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On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:16:54PM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > FYI, I will be changing the ephemeral port range from 1024-5000 to > 49152-65535 later this week on -stable. (The change was committed to > current a week or two ago now.) > > 99.9% percent of people should not notice the change, and need not worry > about it; 49152-65535 is the RFC sanctioned ephemeral port range, and is > already used by NetBSD, Solaris, MacOS X, and others. > > The only case in which you may have to take action is when you have > configured a firewall such that you are allowing packets from [1024-5000] > and denying others. In that case, you will have to instead allow > [49152-65535] after upgrading. If you have a firewall setup which uses > nat or simply allows all outgoing connections, you should not be affected, > and need not worry. Mike, Please do not change this setting in -STABLE. Was this discussed elsewhere? I am strongly against a change that would cause existing machines to suddenly start using a different port range during a -STABLE upgrade. Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc> http://www.nectar.cc/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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