In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
10/26/2006
at 09:12 AM, Hal Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>You and I know that. But it seems some PC/network folks don't fully
>grasp the concepts. When they say FTP, they visualize data flowing
>from here to there via an interactive dialog using the well known
>ports.
The well known ports apply only to the servers; they have to have a
pool of anonymous ports for the clients. Then take into account the
fact that a server sometimes has to fulfill the role of a client.
>The symptoms seen by the OP seemed to be consistent with some sort
>of constraint, such as limited port ranges in a network appliance.
>Such constraints may never be an issue if there were only PC's in
>the loop.
I would expect a web server on a PC top burn a lot of ports. Possibly
even a mail server on a PC.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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