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From: Dustin Wenz <dustinwenz@ebureau.com>
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Subject: Default ephemeral port range
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I'm trying to determine why the default ephemeral port range appears to =
be 10000 through 65535 in at least 8.1 through 9.1RC. Documentation =
regarding the lower bound on the range seems inconsistent. The FreeBSD =
website (http://wiki.freebsd.org/SystemTuning) suggests that =
net.inet.ip.portrange.first defaults to 49152, which I don't believe is =
accurate.

The IANA recommends the range be 49152 through 65535 =
(http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6056). Is there any particular reason why =
net.inet.ip.portrange.first defaults to 10000?

	- .Dustin