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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: Building a gateway 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 01:28:13 -0800
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>As Joe Greco wrote:
>
>> options GATEWAY used to increase certain kernel resources as well as
>> enabling IP forwarding.  If this is still the case - I would say that the
>> sysctl method is much less preferable.
>
>As you said: ``It used to...''  It doesn't do it any more, David
>Greenman has been incresing these sizes unconditionally to the GATEWAY
>values long before.

   Actually it's more complex than that now. The calculation of the buffer
limit is based on a constant plus maxusers (scaled appropriately). This gives
a rough approximation of connections/buffers per process and seems to be a
fairly good fit.

>People should expect options GATEWAY to disappear some day.

   Yes. It's externally controlled now and is no longer needed.

-DG