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Subject: Re: downloading e-mail is blocking network
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On Wed, 19 May 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> Are you using NAT?

Not that I know of.

> It sounds like something has a limited number of NAT state slots 
> available, and is dropping connections past that limit.  It probably 
> will help to try to serialize the activity of fetchmail / procmail so 
> that they aren't opening new connections for every email being 
> processed, if that is what is going on.

Seems worth trying to increase this number but how do I do that? Is this 
changable in FreeBSD or do I change this in the modem (couldn't find 
anything about this in the modem though)?

Regards,
Marco
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