> Are there a significant number of firewalls that allow you to make outbound > connections, but not on arbitrary (1024-5000) ports?
Definitely. Some firewalls only allow port 80 (and sometimes a few other standard ports). > Would it be worthwhile > to have the node take a range of ports to make outbound connections on? You don't get to choose. You have to make a connection on whatever port the destination node is listening.
