Hello, I have a heavy workload to benchmark a proxy server and it generates over 1000 simultaneous sessions requesting files of different sizes. I have two seperate problems that I would like clarified: 1. On the newer versions of the kernel, 2.4.XXX I see way too many connect requests timing out when the load (simultaneous connections and time) is increased... even when other connections finish, the ones that were hanging on the connect still continue to hang. My question is a. Why does this happen more in the 2.4 series b. Should application programs really take care of connect time outs them selves? 2. Second problem. I am using IP masquerading and proxy ARP. When going through the proxy ARP machine, once in a while a connect completely gets lost and the proxy machine never sees the request at all! And this does not happen at all in the 2.2 kernel series at all... no matter how bad the load is. Thanks Lee ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/