Re: Port preservation

Cullen Jennings <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Apr 2004 19:36:49 -1000
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.midcom
Message-ID <BCB31551.3B07C%[email protected]>
On 4/26/04 7:00 PM, "Christopher A. Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:

> For clarity, common server ports in this example would be HTTP, SMTP,
> FTP, etc.

Well for TCP, the NATs don't muck with ports at all. The clients I have for
HTTP, SMTP, FTP, also use source ports different than the destination ports
so that the clients don't have to open a port under 1024 which would require
them to be running as root.