Manually opening TCP ports

[Girish Venkatachalam]

On 07:47:19 Mar 07, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am just wondering if there is a utility (or any feature in FreeBSD)
> that allows me to manually open a TCP port on a machine. I am looking
> for a way that could either allow me to open ALL or many TCP ports on
> a machine.
> 
> Also, is there any way of running a service on more than a single
> port, or on all or many ports?
> 

This is a very interesting question but unfortunately I dunno the
answer.

I know that netcat and socat can be used in a loop.

I prefer a more elegant way. Wonder if there are tools that do it in a
straight forward manner.

-Girish