Oddball SSH port

[Bruce Marshall]

On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Forgive if this is a stoopid question...
>
> I'm starting to change a lot of my remote servers to have SSH listen on
> an oddball port. (A small bit of obfuscation that slows down the
> crackers ... whose population seems to be on an asymptote with infinity.)
>
> Is there any discernible advantage to /which/ oddball port I choose? Is
> any one of the following, for example, any better than another?
>
>      52, 502, 5002, or 50002
>
> Just wondering if any part of the port numbering space is less of a
> target than another. Or if there are technical issues I'm not aware of.

I've always kept my ssh port above  10000 and never had any problems with it.  
Anything above 1024 shoud work fine.