[squid-users] Re: WCCP

TIME_WAIT is rarely a problem on Linux, especially not if you have sufficient
amount of main memory. Running out of free ports may be, but are better fixed
by increasing the port range than decreasing TIME_WAIT..

If you are using ipchains in a Linux-2.4 kernel then switching to iptables is
a good idea. At least two people have confirmed that the Linux-2.4 ipchains
emulation layer is broken.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker

On Thursday 15 November 2001 22.42, Alireza saleh wrote:
> Dear Henrik,
> CI thought that maybe heavy load on my computer and to
> many TIME_WAIT tcp connections make my system crash ,
> also onle of our friends here in the list wrote that
> he solved the problem by changing the redirect process
> from ipchains to iptable in 2.4 kernels, do you agree
> with him ? I think that maybe changing the time in
> TCP_WAIT will help, I read the manual about SYSCTL on
> linux from
> /usr/src/linux-2.4/Documention/networking/ip_sysctl.txt
>
> but I didn't find the essential things around the
> problem,
>
> Regards
> Alireza

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