package portallocator import ( "bytes" "fmt" "os/exec" ) func getDynamicPortRange() (start int, end int, err error) { portRangeKernelSysctl := []string{"net.inet.ip.portrange.hifirst", "net.ip.portrange.hilast"} portRangeFallback := fmt.Sprintf("using fallback port range %d-%d", defaultPortRangeStart, defaultPortRangeEnd) portRangeLowCmd := exec.Command("/sbin/sysctl", portRangeKernelSysctl[0]) var portRangeLowOut bytes.Buffer portRangeLowCmd.Stdout = &portRangeLowOut cmdErr := portRangeLowCmd.Run() if cmdErr != nil { return 0, 0, fmt.Errorf("port allocator - sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange.hifirst failed - %s: %v", portRangeFallback, err) } n, err := fmt.Sscanf(portRangeLowOut.String(), "%d", &start) if n != 1 || err != nil { if err == nil { err = fmt.Errorf("unexpected count of parsed numbers (%d)", n) } return 0, 0, fmt.Errorf("port allocator - failed to parse system ephemeral port range start from %s - %s: %v", portRangeLowOut.String(), portRangeFallback, err) } portRangeHighCmd := exec.Command("/sbin/sysctl", portRangeKernelSysctl[1]) var portRangeHighOut bytes.Buffer portRangeHighCmd.Stdout = &portRangeHighOut cmdErr = portRangeHighCmd.Run() if cmdErr != nil { return 0, 0, fmt.Errorf("port allocator - sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange.hilast failed - %s: %v", portRangeFallback, err) } n, err = fmt.Sscanf(portRangeHighOut.String(), "%d", &end) if n != 1 || err != nil { if err == nil { err = fmt.Errorf("unexpected count of parsed numbers (%d)", n) } return 0, 0, fmt.Errorf("port allocator - failed to parse system ephemeral port range end from %s - %s: %v", portRangeHighOut.String(), portRangeFallback, err) } return start, end, nil }