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Subject: Re: Limits on apache
In-Reply-To: <9707232136.AA01622@negril.msrce.howard.edu> from Aaron Jackson at "Jul 23, 97 05:36:26 pm"
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From: "David Langford" <langfod@dihelix.com>
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>>> I am running a web server using apache 1.2 and stronghold 3.0 both
>>> on freebsd 2.2.2.
>>
>>> It seems the the server wants to go boom if I try to bind more than
>>> 150 ip addresses to the network interface with ifconfig.
>>
>>> Has anyone else had this problem or might know if there is a limit
>>> to the number of ip addesses that can be used?

Add "-DFDSETSIZE=512" to make.conf.
Add "options         OPEN_MAX=512 " in your kernel.

Recompile everything (kernel, make world, and Apache) and you should be set.


-David Langford
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