On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: >> It would be interesting if we could run some netperf tests using port >> 80/443 for the listening socket for the data connection (although if >> doing deep-packet inspection, we might need to use an actual HTTP >> transfer). > > Trouble with this is that netserver would have to run as root to be able > to bind to the ports; it does that dynamically, so binding at startup > and dropping privileges won't work. you can also give the binary the capability to bind to low ports without running as root. setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' /path/to/program > Also it would mean that no other services could run on those ports. that is true. David Lang