Re: [PATCH v3] net: Use standardized (IANA) local port range
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2020-08-28 23:14:03
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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 14:52:03 -0700
Changing the default range impacts existing users. Since Linux has been doing this for so long, I don't think just because a standards body decided to reserve some space is sufficient justification to do this.
Agreed, there is no way we can change this after decades of precedence. We will definitely break things for people.