Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 21:16:54 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Heads up, a bit: ephemeral port range changes Message-ID: <20020403211259.B59420-100000@patrocles.silby.com>
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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. Thanks, Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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