website: document and warn users about disabling serf_wan port

See https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/3984 for more.

This also fixes a link to a heading that existed twice in the document.
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Jack Pearkes 2018-03-29 08:19:21 -07:00
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* <a name="http_port"></a><a href="#http_port">`http`</a> - The HTTP API, -1 to disable. Default 8500.
* <a name="https_port"></a><a href="#https_port">`https`</a> - The HTTPS API, -1 to disable. Default -1 (disabled).
* <a name="serf_lan_port"></a><a href="#serf_lan_port">`serf_lan`</a> - The Serf LAN port. Default 8301.
* <a name="serf_wan_port"></a><a href="#serf_wan_port">`serf_wan`</a> - The Serf WAN port. Default 8302.
* <a name="serf_wan_port"></a><a href="#serf_wan_port">`serf_wan`</a> - The Serf WAN port. Default 8302. Set to -1
to disable. **Note**: this will disable WAN federation which is not recommended. Various catalog and WAN related
endpoints will return errors or empty results.
* <a name="server_rpc_port"></a><a href="#server_rpc_port">`server`</a> - Server RPC address. Default 8300.
* <a name="protocol"></a><a href="#protocol">`protocol`</a> Equivalent to the
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[watch documentation](/docs/agent/watches.html) for more detail. Watches can be
modified when the configuration is reloaded.
## <a id="ports"></a>Ports Used
## <a id="ports-used"></a>Ports Used
Consul requires up to 6 different ports to work properly, some on
TCP, UDP, or both protocols. Below we document the requirements for each