Re: Port preservation

Jonathan Rosenberg <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Apr 2004 00:43:41 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.ietf.midcom
Organization	dynamicsoft
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Christopher A. Martin wrote:

> Hi all,
> The only reason that I can think of, that may be a good reason, is to
> provide the appearance that a client is communicating directly with a
> server on a standard server port (for that professional, I'm a big
> organization look and feel). Some applications do check for this for
> paranoid security reasons, but they are less common.

For what application does the protocol expect the SOURCE port to be a 
standard server port? None that I can think of.

-Jonathan R.

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