On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, f.v. wrote:
> My point of view was to keep distribution compatibilities. most of the howto about
>network say :
> ip_local_port_range default values are : 1024 4999
>
> My question was : why Mandrake decided to change these values ?
> A lot of ipchains/iptables pre-configured scripts are using 1024 4999
>ip_local_port_range values.
The point is that for systems which opens too many network connections or
have too many users, it's a better idea to enlarge the port range, so that
the system won't be congested because of too few ports available. I think
the value 32768-61000 is mentioned in some howto; but forgot which one now.
Abel
