I had a similar situation some weeks ago with a machine passing through a firewall, only a select range of outgoing ports allowed. I think this could be usefull for a handfull of people. Heiko
-- -- PREVINET S.p.A. www.previnet.it -- Heiko Herold [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +39-041-5907073 ph -- +39-041-5907472 fax > -----Original Message----- > From: Hrvoje Niksic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 5:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Adding port range option to `--bind-address'? > > > Does anyone think it would be useful to add the ability to specify > port ranges with `--bind-address'? I received a patch that adds that > feature by extending the `--bind-address' syntax to allow things like > `--bind-address=1.2.3.4:704' and `--bind-address=1.2.3.4:700-1000'. > > I have no use for this functionality, but I'd like to know if someone > else might find this useful. Since the patch does require additional > work to be applied, and since it might interfere with Mauro's IPv6 > work, I'd like to check how useful it is first. > > The submitter, Turi Peter, says: > > Well, a normal user has nothing to do with this patch, but in a > few cases, it's required to do operations from the lower ports. > Here at ELTE I've run into this poblem: I wanted to fetch http(s) > data form a server, where the connections are allowed only from > privilegized ports. Messing with netcat and openssl is quite > messy and I wanted an "elegant" solution, this is why I wrote this > patch. > > What do you think? Mauro, could you comment on this? >
