On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 11:31, Venkatesh K wrote: > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:06:39 +0800, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was reading about Tsunami's literature on "Designing a web caching > > infrastructure" and came upon this line > > > > [snip] > > ... > > have a large pool of ports available for usage. As with file > > descriptors, most systems do not have enough open ports by default. A > > Swell Tsunami is configured to allow the complete port range from 1024 > > through 32768. > > ... > > [snip] > > > > Does anyone know how This can be configured in a Linux Squid Install? > > > You can add the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf if your distro supports > > net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 32768
The other question is, what the difference between that port range and that which is already in my kernel? cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range 32768 61000 There's a difference of ~3K+ ports for the range Tsunami listed. Thanks -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r4 Neuromancer 11:01:15 up 1:51, 6 users, load average: 0.52, 0.53, 0.39
