Does RHEL support reserving local ports from ephemeral range using the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports tunable?

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Issue

  • Some applications whose port ranges conflict with the default ephemeral port range use ip_local_port_range
  • What is the maximum characters support for ip_local_reserved_ports
  • How to reserve port for third-party application?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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