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No, I think one arcane animal has a hardcoded portnumber. To make your filterlife even more complicated, we are working on a portmapper! Peter thoth_at_purplefrog.com writes: > > I just decided to add the coda ports to my packet filter. What a pain in > the ass. > > Rather than having one filter entry of ipfwadm -I -W eth0 -p reject -P udp > -D 0.0.0.0/0 1355:1362, I have to have 8 separate entries or in the unknown > future, 4 of my client application UDP connections will fail miserably and > then everything will return to normal. I haven't done the TCP filters, but > they're going to be a pain also. > > For the future, please register a SOLID BLOCK of VERY HIGH port numbers with > the IANA. Preferrably in the area of 30000 to 32000. A machine would have to > be up for a very long time before it started dispensing in that range. > > I wonder if I just change the entries in /etc/services will that remap the > ports for ALL APPLICATIONS in the coda suite. > > -- > Bob Forsman thoth_at_gainesville.fl.us > http://www.gainesville.fl.us/~thoth/Received on 1998-04-15 15:40:35