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Re: netkit-ftp-0.17
- To: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken(at-nospam)cs.technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: netkit-ftp-0.17
- From: Moshe Zadka <moshez(at-nospam)zadka.site.co.il>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:47:31 +0300
- Cc: "Ariel Biener" <ariel(at-nospam)fireball.tau.ac.il>, netbug(at-nospam)ftp.uk.linux.org, "Alan Cox" <alan(at-nospam)redhat.com>, "Israeli Linux Mailing List" <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Dan Kenigsberg <danken@cs.Technion.AC.IL> wrote:
> Odd. I'm pretty sure unsigned int goes up to 65535 (16bit).
> This is the correct span of port numbers. The question whether it
> was smart to allocate so few is left open.
It was not meant for NATing. It was meant for good ol' fashioned multiplexing.
Note that I have never seen someone run out of port numbers, so it seems
enough.
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