kern.ipc.somaxconn should be high for a PF firewall with a lot of states

[Iantcho Vassilev]

On 5/31/06, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>
> "Iantcho Vassilev" <ianchov at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > kern.ipc.somaxconn is for handling more incoming connections,right?
>
> Well, kind of.  It's a systemwide limit on the maximum number of
> connections that a given socket can accept.
>
> >                                                                     but
> does
> > firewall connections are considered incoming?
>
> No, not really.  But the question doesn't really make sense.  What are
> you trying to do?



 I just wanted to know..Actually i have a very loaded firewall(PF) with a
lot of states and i was wondering if this can help..
But if it is for sockets(something i have missed) then i will not help..


What can this variable help(mysql socket?)?