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RE: rshd running out of privileged ports

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Mark Armstrong wrote:

> > Well, there's only 1024 reserved ports, and if rsh uses TCP, then
> > they have to sit in CLOSE_WAIT for two minutes before being reused.

Last year I was in a similar situation (though with unprivileged ports
rather than privileged) and the work-around I used was to reduce the
CLOSE_WAIT time via the sysctl interface:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-sysctl.html
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=8

Cheers,
Koryn
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