Why isn there an option for forwarding port ranges?
AUTAPF is an active port forwarder. What this means is that when a connection is established to a port being forwarded by AUTAPF, AUTAPF then establishes its own connection to the remote host (that of the forward to host). AUTAPF listens with Winsock on each port of each started port forwarding operation. To forward a range of ports would require that the program listen on each port in the range. The problem is that most folks wanting to forward a port range are doing so because of old and outdated protocols such as FTP that choose effectively random port numbers in a very large range (usually thousands of ports large). Since each port being forwarded takes at least one thread to run, it would require thousands of threads for such a range (and a very large amount of system resources), but even advanced operating systems such as Windows 2000 and XP only support up to 2000 threads per process, and even if the range were only 2000 ports, there would be no room left for session threads. Re
