14 Oct
2010
14 Oct
'10
12:03 p.m.
Hi, I am somewhat new to networking. I have interest in running a Bittorrent tracker. I ran one for a bit, and my one Linux box running Opentracker gets overloaded. My connection is good, and most of it isn't being used. Just a lot of people connect, and use up all the 65k "free connections". I tried messing with the sysctls, but it didn't help too much (and just degraded the connection quality for everyone). It is not a malicious attack either as there is only a few connections per IP and they are sending proper Bittorrent tracker requests... So what can I do? How can I have have open more than 65k concurrent connections on standard GNU/Linux? Thanks for any ideas and suggestions. -John