Re: strange messages

From: Brooks Davis (brooks@one-eyed-alien.net)
Date: 03/08/01 

Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:33:47 -0800
From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Christopher Schulte <christopher@schulte.org>

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:12:41PM -0600, Christopher Schulte wrote:
> You can convince the kernel to use a more user-defined port range(s) for
> dynamic outbound connections with a few sysctl vars, thus making firewall
> confs a bit easier to craft and maintain:
>
> `sysctl -a | grep portrange`

Is there some actual documentation on what these do somewhere? Just
being able to limit the range of arbitrary ports don't do anything, but
I can't see what else you could do with these.

-- Brooks 

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