On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:50:13PM -0700, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:46:36AM -0400, abe wrote:
> 
> >     Unfortunately, feedback sent while in good intentions did not help.  However, 
>in further
> > tinkering with this issue I believe I've come to a conclusion.  I run a rather 
>high-traffic
> > server so I had initially increased net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_buckets to 500, from the 
>default 256
> > as people were complaining that they were getting connection refusals.  At the 
>time of the
> > complaints, it seemed the max dyn_buckets limit had been reached.  In attempt to 
>remedy this
> > as I said above I increased it.  After this week of going through many hardware 
>tests and so
> > forth trying multiple machines with the same rules and numerous fresh 
>installations,
> > tonight I set the default net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_buckets back to 256 and no issues.  
>So then on a chance, 
> > I increased the value to 512.  After this, I attempted to reproduce the panic with 
>the same 
> > procedure I had taken before making this change.  No panics post-change.
> 
> static u_int32_t dyn_buckets = 256; /* must be power of 2 */

Well another issue solved, need thicker glasses it appears.  Thanks much Bill.
Funny thing is, it's been running without issue for almost a year now.  Interesting.


    Regards,

Abe

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