Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

[Peter Wemm]

Tony Finch wrote:
> Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >I'm aware of boxes having been tested to ~100,000 connections if my memory
> >serves correctly.  I know there were problems going over 64k connections at
> >one point due to a 16 bit reference counter in the routes.
> 
> The fix for this hasn't been MFCed yet (rev 1.30 of sys/net/route.h).
> A related problem with the ifa_refcnt field has been fixed.

eep..  I thought this was all done for 3.4.. ouch..

On the other hand, to run that many connections generally requires the tcp
timer enhancements or it spends a lot of time doing list processing.

Cheers,
-Peter
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