Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 10:44:31 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Iantcho Vassilev" <ianchov@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kern.ipc.somaxconn should be high for a PF firewall with a lot of states Message-ID: <44ac8y1cfk.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <18e02bd30605290545j1c9cceebwedc8d28bbf270e11@mail.gmail.com> (Iantcho Vassilev's message of "Mon, 29 May 2006 15:45:20 %2B0300") References: <18e02bd30605290545j1c9cceebwedc8d28bbf270e11@mail.gmail.com>
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"Iantcho Vassilev" <ianchov@gmail.com> writes: > kern.ipc.somaxconn is for handling more incoming connections,right? Well, kind of. It's a systemwide limit on the maximum number of connections that a given socket can accept. > but does > firewall connections are considered incoming? No, not really. But the question doesn't really make sense. What are you trying to do? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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