Reseting TCP Port used on connection

[::CORY::]

When going to a website and checking it's connection with Netstat
(netstat -a) it returns, COMPUTERNAME:2000 for the Local Address.

My question is, is there anyway to specific exactly which Local port a
connection will use? Also as going to various sites or refreshing the same
site it tries on successive ports for each new connection. Is there a
command to reset these tries to start back over at like 1000 again?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Marc Reynolds [MSFT]]

No, the source port used is selected automatically. The only way to force
the ports to close is to reboot. For details on how TCP works please see
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/techresources/commnet/TCPIP/tcpip.asp

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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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[CheshireCat]

Any help would be greatly appreciated.Hi Bob
How are you using netstat on a remote machine?

 

[Arkady Frenkel]

Strange that you choose port 2000 as your listen port because ports 1024-
5000 is for system
( look at http://tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/intermediate.html#svrport ). You can
change starting user address ( default 5000 )
by setting regkey MaxUserPort in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
Arkady

 

[Arkady Frenkel]

Forgot to mention that those the port range system give you free port from
so the only parameter you can play is
setting high port number system can give you , the minimum number 1024 is
fixed.
Arkady