On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, David A. Bandel wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:56:14 -0700 > "Simper, Brian D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I am working with a server that will act as a firewall so it will, of > > course, see a lot of traffic. What is the procedure for tuning Red > > Hat Linux 7.3 or 9.0 to increase the number of network connections the > > OS can accept? Is there a way to see the setting? Are there any > > general tuning that any of you have seen that might help? > > > > You might want to take a look down in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/, but about the > only thing that comes to mind would be ip_conntrack_max if you're using > iptables connection tracking. Most of the rest should handle traffic up > to and including T-3 just fine.
Except when one of my customers had 10 pc's infected with ms-blast and the main firewall is doing NAT. Brought the firewall to its knees when trying to keep up with all the outbound icmp. I haven't had to tune any kernel parameters yet, it is just the stock redhat config. Servicing about 200 or so pc's. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
