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IBM AIX: Maximum ephemeral ports on AIX?

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What is the maximum ephemeral ports you can have on AIX?

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The maximum emphemeral ports you can use on AIX is 64511.
 

tcp_ephemeral_high = 65535 Hard limit
tcp_ephemeral_low = 32768  Soft limit
The default ephemeral ports to be use is 32767.
To increase ephemeral ports to the maximum  
# no -p -o tcp_ephemeral_low = 1024
The maximum range is between IPPORT_RESERVED(1024) - 65535, so you can assign the value respectively.

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31 May 2019

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