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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index cb083e0..5fae770 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -751,8 +751,10 @@ IP Variables: ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to choose the local port. The first number is the first, the - second the last local port number. The default values are - 32768 and 61000 respectively. + second the last local port number. + If possible, it is better these numbers have different parity. + (one even and one odd values) + The default values are 32768 and 60999 respectively. ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges Specify the ports which are reserved for known third-party @@ -775,7 +777,7 @@ ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges ip_local_port_range, e.g.: $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range - 32000 61000 + 32000 60999 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports 8080,9148 |