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| author | silby <silby@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-04-22 08:49:51 +0000 |
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| committer | silby <silby@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-04-22 08:49:51 +0000 |
| commit | e3daaa170bb35d24c6d9c98f6b14163bba660f56 (patch) | |
| tree | 1ee4a313e035c71471ba8c65ed649adf0bf7c3bc | |
| parent | b4c0a798a225a624e180b323c4dd94c9e623eec4 (diff) | |
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Document the net.inet.ip.portrange.randomized sysctl.
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/ip.4 b/share/man/man4/ip.4 index 0203039..b82e421 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/ip.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/ip.4 @@ -324,6 +324,13 @@ Changing these values departs from tradition and has security consequences that the administrator should carefully evaluate before modifying these settings. +.Pp +Ports are allocated at random within the specified port range in order +to increase the difficulty of random spoofing attacks. In scenarios +such as benchmarking, this behavior may be undesireable. In these +cases, +.Va net.inet.ip.portrange.randomized +can be used to toggle randomization off. .Ss "Multicast Options" .Pp .Tn IP |
