Re: [patch] ip_local_port_range sysctl has annoying default

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri May 11 2007 - 22:14:48 EST


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
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