On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:00:52PM +0200, Urs Martini wrote: > But I've another question: Are the ports limited somehow? > (up to 65000 ports perhaps?)
Port numers are 16-bit integers, so there are exactly 65536 of them :-) > My router masq's the internet-traffic from three clients > and the last time my firewall stopped working, I watched the > blocked ports which were all over 64000 and more... > Is that a problem or is it just normal for a masquerading > router? That is standard behaviour for 2.2 kernels, and I do call it a limitation, even though it hardly bothers anyone. 2.4 kernels don't do that anymore. cheers, adc
