From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 24 14:57:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18720 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:57:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eagle.ns.net (eagle.ns.net [204.75.146.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA18715 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:57:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rfg@monkeys.com) Received: from monkeys.com (rfg.ns.net [207.159.10.82]) by eagle.ns.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA24460; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:57:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from monkeys.com (rfg@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by monkeys.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA05817; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:56:33 -0800 To: dg@root.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Outbound Connections Limit == 4K (?) In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:19:50 -0800. <199811242219.OAA23491@root.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:56:32 -0800 Message-ID: <5814.911948192@monkeys.com> X-Deadbolt-Note: Deadbolt(tm) Personal E-Mail Filter, Version 0.95 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199811242219.OAA23491@root.com>, you wrote: >>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. Thanks David. One more question... What would be the largest value that it would be reasonable to set the value of net.inet.ip.portrange.last to? If I set it to 32767, will that mess anything else up? -- Ron Guilmette, Roseville, California ---------- E-Scrub Technologies, Inc. -- Deadbolt(tm) Personal E-Mail Filter demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/deadbolt/ -- Wpoison (web harvester poisoning) - demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/wpoison/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message