Problem with port 0

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez rnsanchez at wait4.org
Fri Jan 12 18:31:24 UTC 2007


On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:03:17 -0500
"Hug Me" <hugme at hugme.org> wrote:

> We believe FreeBSD is not allowing a UDP source port of 0 and the kernel is
> dropping the packet before it ever reaches the tftp server but are unable to
> verify this hypothesis. I was hoping someone here could help shed some light
> on the problem.

But port 0 has special meaning to the kernel (ie, "give me some random
port").  Also, it is a reserved one.  Please check IANA:

	http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers

I'm afraid you'll have to select another port number.

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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez     <rnsanchez@{gmail.com,wait4.org}>
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