Default ephemeral port range

[Colin O'Keeffe]

8.1 through 9.1RC will use net.inet.ip.portrange.hifirst (49152) to .hilast (65535) for ephemeral ports as far as I'm aware. net.inet.ip.portrange.first to .last are just a reference to available port numbers as per RFC6056

Correct me if I'm wrong but netinet/in_pcb.c:490 indicates this is the case.

-Colin

On 12 Nov 2012, at 17:57, Dustin Wenz wrote:

> 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
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