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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Number of Connections on NetBSD? Date: 12 Jan 1994 20:45:06 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2h1ngi$12f@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <2h18bj$ar0@hermes.unt.edu> <DERAADT.94Jan12095858@newt.fsa.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca In article <DERAADT.94Jan12095858@newt.fsa.ca>, Theo de Raadt <deraadt@fsa.ca> wrote: >In article <2h18bj$ar0@hermes.unt.edu> wilsonm@dale.Hsc.unt.EDU (Mike Wilson) writes: > I just noticed that it seems my max connections with NetBSD .9 is 4. How > would I go about making avalible more than four connections? If you have > information I would be greatful for it :) > >This is because you only have 4 pseudo-tty's in your kernel. You should edit >your kernel config file and change it to some larger number, eg. 16. Then >rebuild your kernel. at some point [i'm not sure if it was before or after 0.9], the default number of ptys in the kernel switched to 16. if this is the case, make sure you have the ptys in /dev/.... [./MAKEDEV pty0] marc 'em. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--