From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix xprt_bindresvport
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:13:36 -0400
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To: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
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m=C3=A5 den 11.07.2005 Klokka 11:25 (+0200) skreiv Olaf Kirch:
> # Subject: Fix xprt_bindresvport
> #=20
> # xprt_bindresvport would grab ports in the range 1-800, which can
> # conflict with all sorts of network services. What we really want
> # to do is select from a range N - 1023.
> #=20
> # The patch below changes xprt_bindresvport to select ports from
> # 650-1023 by default (631 is cups, which we better avoid).
> # It also adds syscontrols to allow the admin to use a different
> # port range.

Yep. I'll try to fold this in for 2.6.14.

Note that when we're using RPCSEC_GSS, we ought to drop the reserved
port requirement altogether (and make sure that the server always
exports with the "insecure" option by default).

Cheers,
  Trond


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