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Date:      Tue, 18 Oct 2005 06:45:44 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Limiting closed port RST response from XXX to 200...
Message-ID:  <20051018064421.P20643@odysseus.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051018092048.GB3541@britannica.bec.de>
References:  <3.0.1.32.20051017175115.00a52d18@pop.redshift.com> <20051018092048.GB3541@britannica.bec.de>

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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:51:15PM -0700, ray@redshift.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>   On a server I'm benchmark testing, via local host, I'm getting Limiting closed
>> port RST response from XXXX to 200 packets/sec on the console when I'm running a
>> lot of local connections very quickly all at once (about 7500 per second).  I've
>> added the following:
>
> Check that you don't run out of TCP ports. Adjusting MSS might help,
> netstat -an would show a long list of ports.
>
> Joerg

The 5.x and 6.x series don't let you run out of ports due to TIME_WAIT 
sockets accumulating, so please stop spreading the advice that people 
should twiddle with the MSL.  It's no longer useful advice.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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