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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: pending connection backlog
Date: 18 Sep 1995 08:01:31 GMT
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ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) wrote:
>Is there a way to increase the backlog variable and SOMAXCONN
>variable to allow freebsd to queue more pending IP connections?

This just came up a little while ago..  Look in /sys/sys/socket.h
and change the value to something like, oh, say 32... :-)

(32 is the value it's now set to in -current and the upcoming 2.1).
-- 
						Jordan