On Friday 30 November 2018 at 19:07:58, kalice caprice wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Inside my squid.conf I'm setting up ACL like this:
>
> http_port 0.0.0.0:20740 name=20740
So, you're using the name to represent the port number...
> acl ip10740 myportname 20740
>
> and then
>
> tcp_outgoing_address x.x.x.x ip10740
>
> I've got over 65536
Well, that'll be a problem, then...
> (about 80k) ACL inside my squid.conf and squid throws this error:
>
> ERROR: The value '65536' is larger than the type 'short'.
Indeed. That's how many TCP port numbers you get to play with.
> Well, that's really unfortunate, I'm good at reading C language, but does
> anyone know whether there is a workaround without having to dig into the
> code to change variable type of if not, what variable and where should I
> change it ?
You'd need to change the way TCP networking works (and, no, that's not
possible).
> I'm afraid this could break things but it's not like I've got many choices
> at the current state.
What are you really trying to achieve by defining 80,000 different port numbers
in your ACLs?
Antony.
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