Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Wiki: Do we want to put more ports on a single port reference

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 16:59:19 -0500
Ulf Lamping wrote:

> This page splits the port range into 100 ports per page, but I think,
> that the overview page is a bit too "large".
> 
> What about changing this to have more ports per page, I could think of
> 250 ports per page, so the overview page could have 1000 ports per line.
> 
> So the lines in the overview page would look like:
> 
> 0-249   250-499   500-749   750-999
> 1000-1249   1250-1499   1500-1759   1750-1999
> ...
> 
> Well, the formatting will be a bit nicer at the wiki, but you'll get the
> point.
> 
> Of course, this will increase the number of ports in the subpages.

Another list (http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~s_ita/port/port1-99.html)
distributes the ports unevenly, presumably because there are a lot
low-numbered well-known ports and very few high-numbered ones.  A
similar layout might make sense in our case.