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authorDamien Miller <djm@cvs.openbsd.org>2011-05-23 07:18:46 +0000
committerDamien Miller <djm@cvs.openbsd.org>2011-05-23 07:18:46 +0000
commitf1efbf74fd993e74a4928aadde609543ca736795 (patch)
tree9bf486808c6b456fb1f33564a6d8c2e547980de3 /sbin/sysctl
parent8fd65856d905db6d66ef31fc2c5b99034f14dbf2 (diff)
mention ranges; prodding and feedback jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/sysctl')
-rw-r--r--sbin/sysctl/sysctl.810
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 b/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8
index da523018018..e85c2b2c3d4 100644
--- a/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8
+++ b/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.8,v 1.157 2010/10/11 08:44:34 claudio Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.8,v 1.158 2011/05/23 07:18:45 djm Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: sysctl.8,v 1.4 1995/09/30 07:12:49 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)sysctl.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 5/9/95
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: October 11 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 23 2011 $
.Dt SYSCTL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -491,14 +491,16 @@ To set the list of reserved TCP ports that should not be allocated
by the kernel dynamically:
.Pp
.Dl # sysctl net.inet.tcp.baddynamic=749,750,751,760,761,871
+.Dl # sysctl net.inet.udp.baddynamic=749,750,751,760,761,871,1024-2048
.Pp
This can be used to keep daemons
from stealing a specific port that another program needs to function.
-List elements may be separated by commas and/or whitespace.
+List elements may be separated by commas and/or whitespace;
+a hyphen may be used to specify a range of ports.
.Pp
It is also possible to add or remove ports from the current list:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
-# sysctl net.inet.tcp.baddynamic=+748
+# sysctl net.inet.tcp.baddynamic=+748,6000-6999
# sysctl net.inet.tcp.baddynamic=-871
.Ed
.Pp