Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 01:28:13 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers), scrappy@hub.org, geoff@ginsu.com Subject: Re: Building a gateway Message-ID: <199511180928.BAA00577@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Nov 95 09:43:18 %2B0100." <199511180843.JAA20171@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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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
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