Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:39:06 +0100 (CET) | From | Eric Lammerts <> | Subject | Re: [2.2.18] outgoing connections getting stuck in SYN_SENT |
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On 24 Jan 2001, Mark Longair wrote: > It turned out that this was caused by using autofw to forward a range > of ports (2300-2400 in this case.) It seems that these ports aren't > reserved in any way, so eventually the server tries to use one as a > local port on an outgoing connection. > > I'm looking at finding fix for that.
Tell the kernel to use a different range for automatically assigned ports, that doesn't conflict with your forwarded ports. For example: echo "49152 59999" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
Eric
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