> From: David kerber [mailto:[email protected]]
> In my original post, I posted a bunch of numbers about
> network and other
> possible bottlenecks, and what it boiled down to was that neither my
> firewall load, nor total internet connection bandwidth were close to
> their limits.
Thanks. Apologies for not referring back!
> I do have questions about the number of connections that
> the OS networking stack can handle, but have not figured out how to
> check on that.
As a first step:
netstat -an > somefile.txt
How many TCP sockets are there in the result?
> The outside world connection is a full T-1, running about 40% - 50%
> capacity on average.
Dedicated or contended bandwidth? Can you get the other 50-60% out of it if
you try hard from another machine on the same network, or do you never get it
in reality?
- Peter
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