Sending data beyond port 65535?
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:35 pm
Please help me figure out how is this happening o.o
I made a little program in love to spam udp packets on all ports and capture them on my server with ngrep to test firewall rules.
Doing some testing I forgot to stop the port at the "max" 65535 and the program kept "sending" data on further ports.
Then it happened, somehow my server recieved a packet on port 65659. How did it happen? how can it happen? if 65535 is not the max port then what is it?
I've tested it over and over and I can successfully send data to the server on that magical port.
I made a little program in love to spam udp packets on all ports and capture them on my server with ngrep to test firewall rules.
Doing some testing I forgot to stop the port at the "max" 65535 and the program kept "sending" data on further ports.
Then it happened, somehow my server recieved a packet on port 65659. How did it happen? how can it happen? if 65535 is not the max port then what is it?
I've tested it over and over and I can successfully send data to the server on that magical port.