This is a general port usage query, rather than IPF specific, so if
it's too OT, I apologize.
According to...
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
...port 1024 (among others) is (are) IANA reserved. Does this mean that this
(these) port(s) must not be used, shouldn't be used, or what? Say you have a
Web server running on port 80, as usual. Should a connection to that Web
server from another machine that uses port 1024 be allowed? What about data
from any random port on another machine to a service running on port 1024?
If someone could point me at a specific reference as to just what "reserved"
means in this context, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
Mike
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