Nmap Hackers: Re: Intrusion detection question.

[Michel Arboi <arboi () bigfoot com>]

"Daniel Swan" <swan_daniel () my-Deja com> writes:

> The best example is a source port of 61000-650096 (Possible linux
> masquerading box)
Well, a masquerading Linux box will announce its OS like this, but a
BSD with IP Filter could mimick it:
        map ppp0 10.0.0.0/8 -> ppp0/32 portmap tcp/udp 61000:65095

> I am wondering if there are any other rules of 
> thumb, or even a canonical list of what we can tell from source
> port.  
A couple of ideas:
- are there different allocation algorithms for source ports? 
e.g., first free port above 1023, or random free port above 1023...
- when will a TCP port be reused once the connection is closed? 

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