NickB's questions

I'm stuck trying to setup more than 65536 outgoing TCP connections from a Linux (RedHat5) box.

I have already configured both outgoing and accepting boxes to allow enough file descriptors.

I don't believe there is a problem on the accepting side - I have multiple target boxes, each with multiple IP addresses and I'm using multiple ports.

On the outgoing side I don't believe I'm hitting a limit per IP address - I'm using multiple IP addresses and ports (I'm opening connections from ports 30,000 - 60,000 for each of several IP addresses).

Is there some Linux kernel tunable parameter I'm missing? Or some fundamental limit in TCP?

The failure is that my app for opening the connections is hanging in the connect() call.

Thanks for any help NickB

If anyone has got syslog-ng working on Solaris 10, do you have a set of instructions I could follow to get it installed and working?

I tried following this http://opensystems.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/replacing-syslog-on-solaris-10-with-syslog-ng/ but got stuck with the syslog-ng service stuck restarting with no indication of why.

Thanks for any help. NickB

Does anyone know how to configure syslog to use millisecond timestamps in logs on Solaris 10, instead of the default 1 second resolution?

I know syslog-ng is available but I'm hoping I can just set some configuration with the existing syslog process.

Thanks for any help. NickB