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Date:      Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:49:01 +0000
From:      "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>
Cc:        Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ephemeral port range (patch)
Message-ID:  <47CB3CED.7070303@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200803011338.m21DcY9Z026418@venus.xmundo.net>
References:  <200803011338.m21DcY9Z026418@venus.xmundo.net>

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+1 on increasing the threshold, 1024 is way too low.

Also consider the folk who depend on the existing behaviour: a 
predictable ephemeral port range is useful, if for some reason you need 
to apply a NAT policy to that traffic, with no other knowledge about how 
the applications you must NAT actually behave.

later
BMS



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