Matt Thomas writes:
> At 05:12 PM 9/14/98 , Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >
> >btw, I think that "net.inet.tcp.maxconn" or the equivalent is probably
> >a better name.
> 
> FWIW, Digital UNIX has two knobs: somaxconn and sominconn
> 
> real_backlog = MIN(somaxconn, MAX(sominconn, backlog));

that is cool!

> 
> This allows you fix stupid applications that use SOMAXCONN by
> overriding it but also limiting the maximum backlog to a sane
> value.
> 
> You could default them to 1024 and 0 and allow them to be 
> tweaked by sysctl.
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