(Assuming you’re on Linux)

Are you familiar with the following sysctl settings?

net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range
net.ipv4.ip_local_reserved_ports

Wouter

On 15 Jan 2015, at 06:25, Yaniv Ron <[email protected]> wrote:

> see when you are running OSSEC on a SIP server for example that has lots of 
> calls - obviously lots of these sockets will be used ( every call  uses local 
> ports).
> Since we have lots of servers already up and running I do not want to change 
> the settings of the SIP on them.
> 
> but I would like however to install the agents, only with the ability to 
> define the scope of source ports so they wont interfere....
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 7:18 AM, Yaniv Ron <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have my application that listens on these ports on some of my servers...:/ 
> its causing our application lots of problems...
> 
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:51 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2015, Yaniv Ron wrote:
> 
> I am using 30000-60000 (source ports) on my servers, how can I change the
> source port that the agent is using ?
> 
> Why are you wanting to change the source port?
> 
> "well known ports" are destination ports, not source ports. Your browser 
> talks to a website on port 80, but it talks _from_ a random high port.
> 
> This is the normal way that all software works.
> 
> David Lang
> 
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:53 PM, dan (ddp) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:32 AM, Yaniv Ron <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I found that one of the agents was using a very strange UDP port :
> 
> ossec-age  7055   ossec    7u     IPv4          437537314       0t0
> UDP 10.10.10.10:56594->ossec1
> 
> 
> 10.10.10.10 is the agent and ossec1 is the manager? If so, then 56594
> is the source port chosen at random.
> 
> This server (as well as the rest of my agents) is behind a NAT.
> I tried to find information about ALL the ports that OSSEC agents use
> and I
> didn't found any reasonable information for that.
> 
> I would like to disable my ossec-agents to use these unkown ports - can
> you
> please advise about the following :
> 
> 1) why was this port was in use ? what is it ?
> 2) how can I disable it
> 
>  Thanks,

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