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Re: netkit-ftp-0.17



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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