SYN limit

Mike Silbersack silby at silby.com
Mon Oct 10 01:04:33 PDT 2005


On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Olivier Nicole wrote:

>> FreeBSD has no SYN rate limit, but you could be running into TIME_WAIT
>> recycling issues.
>
> I already set tcp.msl to 5000 to release the TIME WAIT quickly.

I should really remove that sysctl...

It's tangential to the problem, that would only help if you were running 
out of sockets.

> I could not find any port conflict.

> Tried that too but it dod not help.
>
> olivier

Well, you're going to need to take tcpdumps at both hosts to figure this 
out, I have no idea what could be happening.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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