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Subject: Re: performance issues
From: Michael Tokarev (mjttls.msk.ru)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 06:05:52 CDT


Marco d'Itri wrote:
>
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> The official, RFC-blessed (IANA-blessed?) range is 49152-65535.
> I don't know about any adverse effect of lowering the limit.
>
> (On linux, the sysctl file is /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range.)

Do not forget that on linux, port range 61000:65096 used for ip masquerading,
and it is not configurable on run time. (This is irrelevant if you
does not use masq).

> --
> ciao,
> Marco