Which TCP ports to use?

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Published on 2012-09-05T15:30:50Z Indexed on 2012/09/05 15:40 UTC
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Is there a TCP port range which I can be sure will not be used by anything else for traffic between two machines?

If I am reading RFC6335 correctly, I can be sure that no other applications will use specific ports in the Dynamic/Private/Ephemeral range of 49152-65535. However, if I understand correctly, it also states (section 8.1.2) that an application shouldn't assume that any given port in that range is available at any given time, which would mean I can't be 100% sure that it will be unused all the time.

Specifically, I want to assign specific SSH traffic to a different port for the security benefit and so I can classify it differently for QoS purposes, and not have to worry about changing the port in the future.

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