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Date:      Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:19:13 -0600
From:      "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
To:        "Dinesh Nair" <dinesh@alphaque.com>, "Adam Seniuk" <adams@techweavers.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPFW and Dynamic Rules
Message-ID:  <009601c3e05b$d67148a0$d037630a@nic.target.com>
References:  <20040122035407.K532-100000@prophet.alphaque.com>

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Dinesh Nair wrote:

> seems like you're hitting this limit with too many keep-state rules in
> your ipfw ruleset. try trimming them down a little, by adding in
> specific reverse packet flow rules.
>

It does not take many at all to hit the limit.  This is what I used to use
[in /etc/sysctl.conf] on a webserver with great success:

# increase the number of dynamic firewall rules allowed
net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_max=3000

Tom Veldhouse



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