The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is responsible for
maintaining the official assignments of port numbers for specific uses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
The default port for a Sage server (8000) is officially reserved by Intel for
Remote Desktop Management and so Sage should not be using that port.
On Wikipidia, it says of that port
"iRDMI (Intel Remote Desktop Management Interface)[72]—sometimes erroneously
used instead of port 8080"
This causes a practical problem, as company firewalls are likely to be
open on port 8080, but not on 8000, which at least one Sage user has
found. (It was reported some time back, though I can't be bothered to look for
the email. Basically port 8000 was blocked for a user by his companies firewall).
At least the patch to do this would be short - hopefully just one character,
though I suspect it's hard-coded in a few places.
Dave
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