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Subject: Re: kern.ipc.somaxconn should be high for a PF firewall with a lot
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"Iantcho Vassilev" <ianchov@gmail.com> writes:

> kern.ipc.somaxconn is for handling more incoming connections,right?

Well, kind of.  It's a systemwide limit on the maximum number of
connections that a given socket can accept.

>                                                                     but does
> firewall connections are considered incoming?

No, not really.  But the question doesn't really make sense.  What are
you trying to do?

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/