On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:07:37 +0100 (BST)
Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Eric L. Anderson wrote:
> 
> > What is the limit of NFS mounts a FreeBSD server can make and how do you 
> > modify this limit?
> >
> > The only reference I could find to this question on the FreeBSD lists is 
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-July/051947.html
> >
> > I have ran a similar test and the same thing happens after 420 NFS mounts. 
> > This is on both FreeBSD 6.0 and 6.2.
> >
> > We have recently run into a problem where we are bumping up against some 
> > kind of limit to the number of NFS mounts on our FreeBSD servers.
> 
> Sounds a bit like something is running out of reserved ports to use -- the 
> credentials error may mean that a port number >1023 was used for an NFS 
> connection.  Given that reserved ports start around 600, 420 is about the 
> right number of sockets to reach 1024.


Hi,
Reserved ports controlled by sysctl :

net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh: 1023
net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow: 0

although the 600 rwatson mentions seems to be this one:

net.inet.ip.portrange.lowfirst: 1023
net.inet.ip.portrange.lowlast: 600

You should be able to tweak these values - as long as you have ephemeral ports 
for the rest of your network activity, you should be ok, right?
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