Re: question about linux tcp request queue handling

Paul Albrecht (palbrecht@qwest.net)
Sun, 6 Jul 2003 17:12:19 -0700


Nivedita writes:

>
> Do you have tcp_syncookies on?
>

syncookies = 0.

>
>And are you exceeding the len as configured by tcp_max_syn_backlog?
>

max_syn_backlog = 256.

My server program sets its backlog to one and pauses ninety seconds before
accepting connections. Within that ninety second interval, I start three
client programs that do an active open to my server. I expect one of
connections to get discarded when the server's connection backlog limit is
exceeded.

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