Thus spake Scott H:
> In many IPchains scripts I see ports above 1024 set to accept in-bound
> traffic on TCP and UDP. There is usually a comment to the effect of
> ports above 1024 are fair game. Could some one explain why this is
> considered to be ok? In my case I am using a linux firewall for my home
> network.
You need to allow ports above 1024 to be connected to if you're going
to be running any clients on the firewall, like SSH. What happens is
that a client requests a randomly-assigned high port that forms the
local end of the connection.
Wil
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