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Subject: Re: 40k+ outbound connections and bind() problem
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:17:14 +0100
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Le mercredi 26 janvier 2011 =C3=A0 15:00 +0200, Daniel Baluta a =C3=A9c=
rit :
> Hi,
>=20
> > Latest stable, 2.6.37
>=20
> Please apply this patch [1] and see if it's still happening.
>=20
> thanks,
> Daniel
>=20
> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg152204.html
> -

I dont think it'll help ;)

Denys problem is if one source IP address is used, there is an absolute
64K limit to (IP, port) tuple

Only thing you can do is to tune /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
to get close to 64K limit