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Date:      Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:19:50 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Outbound Connections Limit == 4K (?) 
Message-ID:  <199811242219.OAA23491@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 12:54:42 PST." <818.911940882@monkeys.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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