See the Wikipedia page about file systems comparison, especially in column Maximum filename length.
Here are some filename length limits in popular file systems:
BTRFS 255 bytes
exFAT 255 UTF-16 characters
ext2 255 bytes
ext3 255 bytes
ext3cow 255 bytes
ext4 255 bytes
FAT32 8.3 (255 UCS-2 code units with VFAT LFNs)
NTFS 255 characters
XFS 255 bytes
Short answer: you can't. Ports below 1024 can be opened only by root. As per comment - well, you can, using CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE, but that approach, applied to java bin will make any java program to be run with this setting, which is undesirable, if not a security risk.
The long answer: you can redirect connections on port 80 to some other port you can open as normal user.
Run as root:
# iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080
As loopback devices (like localhost) do not use the prerouting rules, if you need to use localhost, etc., add this rule as well (thanks @Francesco):
# iptables -t nat -I OUTPUT -p tcp -d 127.0.0.1 --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080
NOTE: The above solution is not well suited for multi-user systems, as any user can open port 8080 (or any other high port you decide to use), thus intercepting the traffic. (Credits to CesarB).
EDIT: as per comment question - to delete the above rule:
# iptables -t nat --line-numbers -n -L
This will output something like:
Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
num target prot opt source destination
1 REDIRECT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:8080 redir ports 8088
2 REDIRECT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:80 redir ports 8080
The rule you are interested in is nr. 2, so to delete it:
# iptables -t nat -D PREROUTING 2
Best Answer
I finally found that the interface was dropping packets because the driver was configured with a too small Rx descriptor size, which, while working with interrupt coalescence, decides how many packets the driver can hold before it sends the kernel an interrupt. If this value (shown with
ethtool -g <interface>) is too small, packets will be dropped before an interrupt can be raised. After I enlarged it withethtool -G <interface> Rx <a some big value>, no droppings have arisen since.Thank you everyone.