[TriLUG] Maximum Network Connections

Joseph S. Tate dragonstrider at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 15:50:42 EST 2012


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt at freeshell.org>wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Joseph S. Tate wrote:
>
>  I'm running into a problem that's really kicking my tail; when my server
>> gets under high network load, I'm getting connection timeouts.  These
>> don't
>> just happen on the port with the high load, but even on ssh's port too.
>> What are some things to do to track down why the connections are failing?
>>
>
> This sounds like connection tracking is being maxed out (in other words, a
> firewall issue).


Shorewall docs say that they have rate limiting, but not connection
limiting settings.  I'm not currently using any rate limiting settings.



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