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Answer by t3ln3t for What is the maximum port number in Linux?

all the folks saying 65,535 are correct.HOWEVER!!!with some careful kernel tunable parameter manipulation you can tell linux to use more. Some commercial UNIX systems would run services on technically...

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Answer by Stephen Mathews for What is the maximum port number in Linux?

Although 1-65535 are legit TCP ports and it is true that 1-1023 are for well known port services. You may run into random issues with your own services if they are started after an ephemeral port is...

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Answer by Matt Simmons for What is the maximum port number in Linux?

(2^16)-1, or 0-65,535 (the -1 is because port 0 is reserved and unavailable). (edited because o_O Tync reminded me that we can't use port 0, and Steve Folly reminded me that you asked for the highest...

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Answer by kolypto for What is the maximum port number in Linux?

1-65535 are available, and ports in range 1-1023 are the privileged ones: an application needs to be run as root in order to listen to these ports.

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What is the maximum port number in Linux?

I'd like to set some Linux services to non-standard ports - what's the highest valid port number?

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