Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:19:50 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Outbound Connections Limit == 4K (?) Message-ID: <199811242219.OAA23491@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 12:54:42 PST." <818.911940882@monkeys.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>Is there some sort of a hard limit burried in the kernel someplace >(e.g. 4K) on the total number of outbound connections allowed from >a single FreeBSD system? > >That's the impression I'm getting. The default port range that the kernel will allocate from is 1024-5000, which is just under 4000 ports. You can change the upper number with sysctl; check out net.inet.ip.portrange.last. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199811242219.OAA23491>