Re: MAXCONNECTIONS

[Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 13 May 1998, Sotiris Tsimbonis wrote:

> On Wed, 13 May 1998, Tomas Edwardsson wrote:
> > Has anyone found a way to have more than 254 MAXCONNECTIONS defined on
> > ircd for Linux?
> 
> Yes, with a special filehandle patch that increases the maximum number of
> files/network sockets that you can open to 3000. It is available at
> http://www.linux.org.za/patches/filehandle.patch
> 
> The patch is against linux 2.0.30 sources though, and I don't know if it
> will work with the latest kernels.

It works with 2.0.33 anyway.

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