Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Reserving "special" port numbers in the kernel ? | From | Arun Sharma <> | Date | 17 Nov 2002 08:37:19 -0800 |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 00:00, Arun Sharma wrote: > > One of the Intel server platforms has a magic port number (623) that > > it uses for remote server management. However, neither the kernel nor > > glibc are aware of this special port. > > I can't find it in the IETF standards documents either.
It's been registered as a well known port:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
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> > > Has anyone run into this or similar problems before ? Thoughts on > > what's the right place to handle this issue ? > > Run your remote management daemon from xinetd, it'll then get the port > nice and early in the system runtime.
The thing that's unique about our situation is that the daemon in not user level. It runs at hardware/firmware level, so that you can remotely administer the machine even when software is malfunctioning.
-Arun
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