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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: stephen@networkplumber.org
Cc: avi@bartavi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org,
	corbet@lwn.net, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: Use standardized (IANA) local port range
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:14:00 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200828.161400.1745757163764326397.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200828145203.65395ad8@hermes.lan>

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 14:52:03 -0700

> Changing the default range impacts existing users. Since Linux has been doing
> this for so long, I don't think just because a standards body decided to reserve
> some space is sufficient justification to do this.

Agreed, there is no way we can change this after decades of
precedence.  We will definitely break things for people.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-28 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20200821142533.45694-1-avi@bartavi.nl>
2020-08-28 20:39 ` [PATCH v2] net: Use standardized (IANA) local port range Bart Groeneveld
2020-08-28 20:44   ` [PATCH v3] " Bart Groeneveld
2020-08-28 21:52     ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-08-28 23:14       ` David Miller [this message]
2020-08-31  8:07       ` Eric Dumazet
2020-08-29 10:37     ` Michal Kubecek
2020-08-29 13:37   ` [PATCH v2] " David Laight

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