Re: pf change destination port for outgoing traffic

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Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2008 - 3:08 pm

Karel Galuska wrote:

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As a casual reader of this thread, I'm wondering if someone could
enlighten me as to why you'd want a custom application to take the
"standard" destination port an app (web browser) has requested and remap
it to some random high port which the destination server has no hope of
understanding, therefore requiring said port to be re-translated back to
its original by a proxy or firewall anyhow? It seems a completely
pointless and futile exercise. I hope it's not some kind of attempt at
security through obscurity, but for the life of me I couldn't think of
some other reason why you'd want to do this.

Thanks for any clarity someone might send my way,
Mark

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Re: pf change destination port for outgoing traffic, Karel Galuska, (Wed Apr 9, 10:02 am)
Re: pf change destination port for outgoing traffic, Mark Rolen, (Wed Apr 9, 3:08 pm)