Forgive me if I don't understand something. I presume you are
changing the default values of net.inet.ip.portrange.first and
net.inet.ip.portrange.last?
If this is true, and it follows that you can change these back to
their previous values, what is the fuss about?
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Dave Hayes - Consultant
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:07:13AM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> The ephemeral port range determines the maximum number of simultaneous
> outbound connections that you can have. As pointed out in a PR (I don't
> recall the # offhand), our low limit was probably the reason that FreeBSD
> ran out
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:53:25PM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> As we have a RELENG_4_5 branch, I see no reason that I should hold off on
> the change. It's mostly unimportant, not gratuitous.
Well, Mike, I don't think I can put it more strongly. If you are
insistent about making this change
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> What I don't see is why this must be made to -stable at all.
> What would be the consequences if we simply left RELENG_4
> with the same port-range that it's always had? Note that
> this is not a complaint on my part, it is only a request for
> mor
