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> Just curious: why not just use a nonprivileged socket? What do you gain > from using a low port? Once your port is bound, no one else will be able > to bind it. AFAICT you're only avoiding the small likelihood of a non- > root user binding that port before you can ... ahhh, and maybe such an > attacker could intercept traffic from the peer? Is that it? not quite - my illusions regarding security have vanished slowly during the last 30-odd years of my it 'career'... ;-) i need a 'low' port because of firewall peculiarities on the client side. oh yes, i could kinda 'nat' it on my side, true, maybe... -- ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |