Binesh Veetil wrote:
Rob Spoor wrote:Not necessarily. On Linux and Unix regular users cannot open ports below 1024. You need root access for that.
What do you mean by root access? Will I be able to do a telnet from IP to another like : <telnet IP Port> port numbers which I am using are below 1024 as well.
telenet'ing to another machine is completely unrelated to your ability to bind a process to a port on the local machine.
In your post, you mentioned your trying to start an application that will bind and listen on port XXXX. Rob makes a great point, that you either need to select a port number > 1024 OR you must run the process as the user root. IMO, your better off selecting a higher numbered port as your less likely to run into port conflicts with another process.
Cheers,
Philip