Editing Ephemeral port (section)

==Range==

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! Range !! Operating system
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| 49152–65535 || suggested by RFC 6335 and the [[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority]] (IANA) for dynamic or private ports.<ref>[https://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers IANA port number assignments]</ref><ref>{{cite IETF |title=Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry |rfc=6335 |sectionname=Port Number Ranges |section=6 |last1=Cotton |first1=M. |last2=Eggert |first2=L. |last3=Touch | first3=J. |last4=Westerlund |first4=M. |last5=Cheshire |first5=S. |date=August 2011 |quote=the Dynamic Ports, also known as the Private or Ephemeral Ports, ... 49152-65535 (never assigned) |publisher=[[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]] |access-date=November 14, 2021 |doi=10.17487/RFC6335}}</ref> [[FreeBSD]] has used the IANA port range since release 4.6. [[Windows Vista]], [[Windows 7]], and [[Server 2008]] use the IANA range by default.<ref>[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929851/ Microsoft KB Article 929851]</ref>
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| 32768–60999 || used by many [[Linux kernel]]s.<ref group=note>The effective range is accessible via [[procfs]] at node <code>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range</code>.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest//networking/ip-sysctl.html#ip-variables |title=IP Sysctl |website=The Linux Kernel documentation |access-date=2021-06-27 |quote=The default values are 32768 and 60999 respectively.}}</ref>
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| 32768–65535 || used by [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]] OS {{citation needed|date=August 2022}} and [[AIX (operating system)|AIX]] OS.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}
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| 1024–65535 || RFC 6056 <ref>{{cite IETF |RFC=6056 |title=Recommendations for Transport-Protocol Port Randomization |section=3.2. Ephemeral Port Number Range |author=M. Larsen |author2=F. Gont |date=January 2011 |quote=However, ephemeral port selection algorithms should use the whole range 1024–65535.}}</ref>
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| 1025–60000 || default of Windows Server 2008 with Exchange Server 2007 installed.<ref>[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929851 Microsoft KB Article 929851]</ref> In addition to the default range, all versions of Windows since Windows 2000 have the option of specifying a custom range anywhere within 1025&ndash;65535.<ref>[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929851/ Microsoft KB Article 929851]</ref><ref>[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196271/ Microsoft KB Article 196271]</ref>
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| 1024–5000 || [[FreeBSD]] versions before 4.6, including the [[Berkeley Software Distribution]] (BSD).<ref>{{cite book|title=UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1, Second Edition: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI|publisher= Prentice Hall|year= 1998|isbn= 0-13-490012-X|pages=42–43}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ncftp.com/ncftpd/doc/misc/ephemeral_ports.html |title=The Ephemeral Port Range |quote=note that the Linux 2.4 kernel will default the range of 32768 through 61000 if adequate kernel memory is available |date=2001 |author=Mike Gleason |access-date=2018-01-15 }}</ref> Default range of [[Microsoft Windows]] operating systems through [[Windows XP]].<ref>[https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb878133.aspx Microsoft Windows Technet Library]</ref> 
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| 1025–5000 || used by [[Windows Server 2003]], until Microsoft security update MS08-037 from 2008 is installed, after which it uses the IANA range by default.<ref>[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956188/ Microsoft KB Article 956188]</ref>
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