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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: number of socket connections
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On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, rajesha wrote:

> When doing socket programming, what is the maximum socket connections that
> can be made in UNIX in FreeBSD: 128 or 255?  I looked in the sys/socket.h
> header file and it had a define of 'SOMAXCONN' as 128.
> 

This is defined as a kernel sysctl variable 'kern.somaxconn.'  The default
is 128 there.

$ sysctl -a | grep somaxconn
kern.somaxconn: 128


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