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From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
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Cc: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Ephemeral port range (patch)
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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