[squid-users] Fwd: ERROR: http_port or ACL larger than 65536 (short type)

[Antony Stone]

On Friday 30 November 2018 at 19:07:58, kalice caprice wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Inside my squid.conf I'm setting up ACL like this:
> 
> http_port 0.0.0.0:20740 name=20740

So, you're using the name to represent the port number...

> acl ip10740 myportname 20740
> 
> and then
> 
> tcp_outgoing_address x.x.x.x ip10740
> 
> I've got over 65536

Well, that'll be a problem, then...

> (about 80k) ACL inside my squid.conf and squid throws this error:
> 
> ERROR: The value '65536' is larger than the type 'short'.

Indeed.  That's how many TCP port numbers you get to play with.

> Well, that's really unfortunate, I'm good at reading C language, but does
> anyone know whether there is a workaround without having to dig into the
> code to change variable type of if not, what variable and where should I
> change it ?

You'd need to change the way TCP networking works (and, no, that's not 
possible).

> I'm afraid this could break things but it's not like I've got many choices
> at the current state.

What are you really trying to achieve by defining 80,000 different port numbers 
in your ACLs?


Antony.

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