From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [DOCUMENTATION PATCH] Missing net sysctls, some fixed, rest flagged Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:15:31 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040616111531.6047bb40.davem@redhat.com> References: <20040609175242.GA13875@outpost.ds9a.nl> <20040615201912.691ffe35.davem@redhat.com> <40D006BF.7020002@cosmosbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ahu@ds9a.nl, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Eric Dumazet In-Reply-To: <40D006BF.7020002@cosmosbay.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:37:19 +0200 Eric Dumazet wrote: > I dont agree with the 'TCP' word here : listen() system call is not tied > with TCP, isn't it ? > I would suggest : > > +somaxconn - INTEGER > + Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN. > + Defaults to 128. See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning for TCP sockets. > + Works for me. Applied.