Number of connections limited

[Donald Becker]

On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Jean-Christophe Ducom wrote:

> Does anybody have an idea why I get this error message
> rcmd: socket: *All **ports* in *use* 
> when I start even less than 255 rsh connections? The system is Redhat 7.2 and
> ldd /usr/bin/rsh
>         libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40020000)
>         libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x4004d000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40050000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> 
> Any way to get over that?

Turn off firewalling and IP-Masq to start debugging the problem.
It should work with a few thousand connections.

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