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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Number of Connections on NetBSD?
Date: 12 Jan 1994 20:45:06 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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In article <DERAADT.94Jan12095858@newt.fsa.ca>,
Theo de Raadt <deraadt@fsa.ca> wrote:
>In article <2h18bj$ar0@hermes.unt.edu> wilsonm@dale.Hsc.unt.EDU (Mike Wilson) writes:
>   I just noticed that it seems my max connections with NetBSD .9 is 4. How
>   would I go about making avalible more than four connections? If you have
>   information I would be greatful for it :)
>
>This is because you only have 4 pseudo-tty's in your kernel. You should edit
>your kernel config file and change it to some larger number, eg. 16. Then
>rebuild your kernel.

	at some point [i'm not sure if it was before or after 0.9], the
	default number of ptys in the kernel switched to 16.  

	if this is the case, make sure you have the ptys in /dev/....

	[./MAKEDEV pty0]



							marc 'em.
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