[CentOS] Fwd: Different behavior of net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range between RHEL-5 and RHEL-6

2012-11-08 Thread Santi Saez
Forwarding just in case anyone is familiar with this on CentOS, thanks! -- Hello, Just found that net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range has different behavior between RHEL releases: until v6 although you have multiple source IPs you can only use a fixed number of local ports, seems that

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Different behavior of net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range between RHEL-5 and RHEL-6

2012-11-08 Thread Nux!
On 08/11/12 08:53, Santi Saez wrote: Forwarding just in case anyone is familiar with this on CentOS, thanks! Hello, I don't know the exact bit that enables this feature in the kernel, but chances are the el5 kernel is simply too old to support this. If you want to stick with el5 then you

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Different behavior of net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range between RHEL-5 and RHEL-6

2012-11-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/08/2012 12:53 AM, Santi Saez wrote: The problem is that on RHEL-5 and 4 you can only make ip_local_port_range outgoing connections and you can't use different source IPs trick to increase this limitation. How have you configured the system to use the additional source addresses for