From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 30 3:34:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCFE437B401 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 03:34:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from catflap.home.slightlystrange.org (www.slightlystrange.org [62.190.193.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C478943EEC for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 03:34:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.home.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18SyBi-000P0r-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:34:30 +0000 Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:34:30 +0000 From: Daniel Bye To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: No route to host Message-ID: <20021230113430.GD57381@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions References: <3E0EE3EA.4845.19B4ED9C@localhost> <3E0F12C5.29703.1A6BF2EC@localhost> <1041198047.68500.195.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1041198047.68500.195.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:40:48PM +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote: > I had a look at the attachment, but could see anything (to my eyes) that > look untoward in there, except the fact that you've got "maxusers" set > to 0. This value tells the kernel how many "new file / processes can be > opened. > > This definitely should be higher, probably somewhere around 132. > > What does /var/log/messages & /var/log/security say whenever you try to > access a remote host, or ping the local machine. If it were a firewall > issue the attempts would have been logged there. > > Bump maxuers to 132 asap, and try seeing if anything gets logged when > testing later. This from LINT: # The `maxusers' parameter controls the static sizing of a number of # internal system tables by a formula defined in subr_param.c. Setting # maxusers to 0 will cause the system to auto-size based on physical # memory. It seems to work pretty well on any and every box I have ever built, so unless your system has trouble determining the availalbe physical memory, my guess is you can just leave it as is. I am no kernel expert, mind, but I don't think fiddling with this setting while trying to fix another problem will help matters. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message