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From: bob@hanszen.rice.edu (Robert Morrison Dana)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI, FWTK, statistics
Date: 11 May 1995 23:06:32 GMT
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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We haven't had fwtk running long enough to gather good statistics, but
there is a potential problem you might have.  All the fwtk proxies are
launched from inetd.  The BSD/OS 1.1 inetd (at least in the binary-only
distribution) disables services that experience more than 40
connections/min.  This can happen with the Web proxy with a very few
users.  The parameter isn't tunable without a recompile in 1.1, but 2.0
inetd has a command-line option to set the connection rate at which
services are disabled. Unfortunately the man page misdocuments the
default rate at 1000 connection/min.  Again (according to BSDI support)
the default is 40/min.

-Robert

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