Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762102AbXELCOq (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2007 22:14:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755048AbXELCOk (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2007 22:14:40 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:43259 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755043AbXELCOj (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2007 22:14:39 -0400 Message-ID: <46452301.4060306@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 19:14:25 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: mark@glines.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] ip_local_port_range sysctl has annoying default References: <20070511170135.7c38615f@chirp> <20070511.170638.35663266.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20070511.170638.35663266.davem@davemloft.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 555 Lines: 17 David Miller wrote: > > All ports above and including 1024 are non-privileged and available to > anyone. > > Applications which have some requirements in this area need to work > those things out themselves. However, there are a large number of applications which have registered ports in this range. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/