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To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
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Subject: Re: Outbound Connections Limit == 4K (?) 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>Is there some sort of a hard limit burried in the kernel someplace
>(e.g. 4K) on the total number of outbound connections allowed from
>a single FreeBSD system?
>
>That's the impression I'm getting.

   The default port range that the kernel will allocate from is 1024-5000,
which is just under 4000 ports. You can change the upper number with sysctl;
check out net.inet.ip.portrange.last.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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