Change EthernetClient to use IANA recommended ephemeral port range #2345
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This is essentially a duplicate of #2249, but since this request has some more reasoning and uses a more standard port number, I'll close that one in favour of this one. |
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Change EthernetClient to use IANA recommended ephemeral port range
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Certain ISPs block certain ports and this can cause connect failures for Ethernet clients. By changing the port range used in EthernetClient.cpp from 1024-65535 to the IANA-recommended "ephemeral port" range of 49152-65535, these failures should be minimized as ISPs should be less likely to block ports in this range. Note that recent versions of Windows and FreeBSD use the IANA-recommended range. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeral_port
In my case, failures occurred on port 1080, which is blocked by Comcast (one of the largest ISPs in the USA), see http://customer.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/list-of-blocked-ports/