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Subject: Re: [Bloat] different speeds on different ports? (benchmarking fun)
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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
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