From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 27 12: 4:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cs.rice.edu (cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DFF51517A for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:04:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aron@cs.rice.edu) Received: (from aron@localhost) by cs.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id OAA13752 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 14:04:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 14:04:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Mohit Aron Message-Id: <199906271904.OAA13752@cs.rice.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: port number space Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, when a TCP client connects to a server, often the socket code is so written such that the OS chooses the client port number (ephemeral port). By default, FreeBSD uses the port number space ranging from 1024 to 5000. Since the port numbers are 16 bits, presumably, it can use a much larger range - say from 1024 to 65535. can someone tell me why FreeBSD doesn't do this. - Mohit Aron aron@cs.rice.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message