From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:03:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:03:04 -0500 Received: from [213.253.36.78] ([213.253.36.78]:41994 "HELO blackhole.uknet.spacesurfer.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:02:48 -0500 Message-ID: <3A620671.B6C15F01@spacesurfer.com> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:05:05 +0000 From: Patrick Reply-To: pim@uknet.spacesurfer.com Organization: SpaceSurfer Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel oops in tcp_ipv4.c In-Reply-To: <200101141946.WAA25337@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > > Hello! > > > Recently I tried 2.2.17, this kernel was up for about a month, before > > there was a kernel oops. The syslog messages are: > > This is caused by illegal setting of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range > with kernels before 2.2.18. > > Do not touch this value or change it to something reasonable, > f.e. to one of values recommended in net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c > > Alexey You are right I had the range set to 16384-65535! I have changed the high limit to 61000, that should be ok. Is there any point in having the low limit above 1024? regards, Patrick -- Patrick Mackinlay patrick@spacesurfer.com ICQ: 59277981 tel: +44 7050699851 fax: +44 7050699852 SpaceSurfer Limited http://www.spacesurfer.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/