On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:39:33PM -0700, Chris Croswhite wrote:
> Why only up to 800 (although this is a large number)?  There are
> instances where I could have 1200-1600 clients connecting to the same
> server (4 way opteron) if I could that many...
> 

this limit has been hardcoded in the sunrpc layer since the
birth of time. it starts at 800 and counts down to 0 until
it find an unused port. requring a privileged port gets
you the default level of security NFSv3 provides...

anybody know why rpc doesn't use the full port 0-1023 range?

--
Stew Smith

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