[syslog-ng]Max number of TCP connections?

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 05:34:41PM -0500, Chris Sibbitt wrote:
> SUMMARY: How many connection can I have to a tcp() source? 10? Why?
>  
>  I have been experiencing a problem with a syslog-ng (1.4.11) server
> seemingly only allowing 10 connections to a tcp() source. A quick tour of
> the code found the offending code at line 341 in afinet.c:
>  
> self->super.max_connections = 10;

it's limited because otherwise it'd be easy to mount a DoS attack against
the logger host. you can change this limit run-time without changing the
source with the max-connection option to tcp():

source src { tcp(max-connections(100)); };


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Bazsi
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