From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 4 1:53:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc4-card4-0-cust162.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.14.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 382BD37B405; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 01:53:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16t3vk-0001cn-00; Thu, 04 Apr 2002 10:53:20 +0100 Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 10:53:20 +0100 From: Ceri To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: Mike Silbersack , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up, a bit: ephemeral port range changes Message-ID: <20020404095320.GB4598@submonkey.net> References: <20020404005838.P60053-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <20020404011807.GC93977@madman.nectar.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020404011807.GC93977@madman.nectar.cc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 07:18:07PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:07:13AM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > The ephemeral port range determines the maximum number of simultaneous > > outbound connections that you can have. As pointed out in a PR (I don't > > recall the # offhand), our low limit was probably the reason that FreeBSD > > ran out of steam before the other OSes in the sysadmin benchmark last > > year. > > > Sure it is. After an installkernel you always have kernel.old sitting > > around. > > You don't need the old kernel, anyway. You can just use the sysctl > knobs. Any reason why we can't just say that in UPDATING, and then the few who do have problems (and I think it will be few) have an instant fix in UPDATING while they get their firewall sorted out ? If/when the change is made, if traffic on the lists warrants then we can add it to the FAQ as well. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message