Drake Wilson wrote: > Quoth Olaf Selke <[email protected]>, on 2009-11-10 07:54:57 +0100: >>> It sounds like you're running >>> out of outgoing ports to use for connections. >> yes, but only about 27000 tcp connections have been open > > That's getting close to the limit. Usually only high-numbered ports > are used for outgoing connections. Since you mention you are running > Linux, you may wish to check /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range > and possibly widen the range to see whether that helps. E.g., the > default range on my system appears to be 32768--61000, which allows > at most 28232 outgoing TCP connections that are not bound to specific > ports, and fewer if some of the ports are stuck in wait states. > > /proc settings (as you are probably aware) are usually changed using > echo and shell redirection, so you would use > > # echo 24576 65000 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
thx, it appears you are right: anonymizer2:~# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range 32768 61000 anonymizer2:~# echo 24576 65000 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range anonymizer2:~# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range 24576 65000 Olaf *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
