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How to have open more than 65k concurrent connections?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (johndole@hush.ai)
Thu Oct 14 12:03:31 2010
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:03:23 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: johndole@hush.ai
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi,
I am somewhat new to networking. I have interest in running a
Bittorrent tracker. I ran one for a bit, and my one Linux box
running Opentracker gets overloaded. My connection is good, and
most of it isn't being used. Just a lot of people connect, and use
up all the 65k "free connections". I tried messing with the
sysctls, but it didn't help too much (and just degraded the
connection quality for everyone). It is not a malicious attack
either as there is only a few connections per IP and they are
sending proper Bittorrent tracker requests...
So what can I do? How can I have have open more than 65k concurrent
connections on standard GNU/Linux?
Thanks for any ideas and suggestions.
-John
