Does IPv6 have the 0-1024 superuser requirements for ports? I saw in the changelog for Linux 4.11 that they added a sysctl option to change it, but it only lists it under IPv4.
Also does Open/FreeBSD have that restriction in IPv6?
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Sign up to join this communityThese ports are for TCP/UDP, which are protocols running on top of IP. So things should be same whatever version of IP you are using.
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_unprivileged_port_start
) instead of in a different directory for TCP and UDP. I will test it when I get access to a system with IPv6 enabled in the kernel.