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I’m not exactly sure if that’s the question, but the range can be set. Here’s the Linux solution: https://tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edi... FreeBSD has net.inet.ip.portrange

That might not quite fit my use case. My AI-generated scripts probably won't modify system-level configuration files to change the port range

... do you not have a say in the matter?