MSPress is celebrating 25 years, so they are giving away free e-books (one per month). This month it’s: Windows Server(r) 2008 TCP/IP Protocols and Services by Joseph Davies
I love TCP/IP. It’s not news, yet every time an additional documentation comes out I go into happy mode. In this case it’s ~600 paged PDF from Microsoft that describes how TCP/IP is implemented. The document’s author is Joseph Davis who has a few TCP/IP books behind him (with Thomas Lee). Download the PDF here.
According to KB929851 the dynamic range of TCP/UDP ports to be used by applications on Vista or Win2k8 has changed from 1025 to 5000 to 49152 to 65535. The port ranges can be viewed by using the following commands: •netsh int ipv4 show dynamicport tcp •netsh int ipv4 show dynamicport udp •netsh int ipv6 show dynamicport tcp •netsh int ipv6 show dynamicport udp In addition to that the port ranges can be changed by using the following commands: •netsh int ipv4 set dynamicport...