Re: "Crashing" Firewall

["Andrei D. Caraman" <adc@floater.org>]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:55:45PM +0200, Michael Bergbauer wrote:
> On Tue Oct 08, 2002 at 11:4654AM -0400, Andrei D. Caraman wrote:
> > Port numers are 16-bit integers, so there are exactly 65536 of
> > them :-)
> 
> <beancountmode>
> No, only 65535, as you can't use port 0, because the reference 
> implemenation uses the 0 as special value.
> </beancountmode>

of course!  i should have wrote that there are exactly 65536
possible values, out of which 65535 can be used, as 0 is the
special value you mentioned :-)


adc