On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Mohana Sundaram wrote: > port numbers upto 256 is reserved for critical services and if normal users > are allowed to tamper with it, it might be some form of security breach. On > those lines I think it shouldn't be possible. Correction: port 0 to 1023 are privileged ports. They need root privileges to bind to. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
