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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 |
