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From: Gaspar Chilingarov <gasparch@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Linux kernel 2.6.31 IPv4 TCP fails to open huge amount
	of outgoing connections (unable to bind ... )
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:12:44 +0500
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2010/4/21 Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>:
> Le mardi 20 avril 2010 =C3=A0 16:49 -0700, Ben Greear a =C3=A9crit :
>> On 04/20/2010 04:35 PM, Gaspar Chilingarov wrote:
>> > sysctl -a | grep local_port_range
>>
>> [root@ct503-10G-09 ~]# sysctl -a | grep local_port_range
>> net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range =3D 10000 =C2=A061000
>>
>> I'm explicitly binding to local ports as well as local IPs, btw.
>>
>
> I believe the bsockets 'optimization' is a bug, we should remove it.
>
> This is a stable candidate (2.6.30+)
>
> [PATCH net-next-2.6] tcp: remove bsockets count
>
> Counting number of bound sockets to avoid a loop is buggy, since we c=
ant
> know how many IP addresses are in use. When threshold is reached, we =
try
> 5 random slots and can fail while there are plenty available ports.
>

Thank you a lot for the patch - I will try it.

In FreeBSD I was able to add about 32 C classes (8192 ips) on the
single interface (never tried to do that in Linux yet :) - so you
really never know how much IP's are there available. Tens and even up
to hundred IPs on the single machine are not that usual in hosting
environment at all.

/Gaspar