Re: Kernel oops in tcp_ipv4.c

Patrick (patrick@spacesurfer.com)
Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:05:05 +0000

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> > Recently I tried 2.2.17, this kernel was up for about a month, before
> > there was a kernel oops. The syslog messages are:
>
> This is caused by illegal setting of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
> with kernels before 2.2.18.
>
> Do not touch this value or change it to something reasonable,
> f.e. to one of values recommended in net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
>
> Alexey

You are right I had the range set to 16384-65535!
I have changed the high limit to 61000, that should be ok.
Is there any point in having the low limit above 1024?

regards,
Patrick

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