Bug 252885

Summary:	Outdated values for portrange (Handbook 12.11.2.1)
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Marián Černý <majo-bugs.freebsd.org>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status:	Closed DUPLICATE
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	0mp, pauamma
Priority:	---
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Marián Černý 2021-01-21 13:45:49 UTC

The section 12.11.2.1 Network Limits > net.inet.ip.portrange.* of the Handbook seems to be outdated.

For example, it mentions:
> Most network programs use the default range which is controlled by net.inet.ip.portrange.first and net.inet.ip.portrange.last, which default to 1024 and 5000, respectively.

However, the current limits on FreeBSD 12.1 are:
net.inet.ip.portrange.first: 10000
net.inet.ip.portrange.last: 65535

So I believe the default limits have been raised since the paragraph has been written.

If that is true, (at least) the following sentence won't also be correct:
> A value of 10000, 20000 or 30000 may be reasonable.

Comment 1 Mateusz Piotrowski freebsd_committer

2021-01-21 20:30:19 UTC

Thanks for the report. I'll open it for the doc committers to take care of it.

Comment 2 Marián Černý 2021-01-22 07:58:00 UTC

Seems this bug report is a duplicate of bug #223997 - FreeBSD Handbook Section 11.11 Guidelines on net.inet.ip.portrange obselete

Comment 3 Pau Amma 2022-04-11 03:28:09 UTC

(In reply to Marián Černý from comment #2)
Yes, duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 223997 ***