Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:56:32 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: dg@root.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Outbound Connections Limit == 4K (?) Message-ID: <5814.911948192@monkeys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:19:50 -0800. <199811242219.OAA23491@root.com>
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In message <199811242219.OAA23491@root.com>, you wrote: >>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. Thanks David. One more question... What would be the largest value that it would be reasonable to set the value of net.inet.ip.portrange.last to? If I set it to 32767, will that mess anything else up? -- Ron Guilmette, Roseville, California ---------- E-Scrub Technologies, Inc. -- Deadbolt(tm) Personal E-Mail Filter demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/deadbolt/ -- Wpoison (web harvester poisoning) - demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/wpoison/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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