Hi, According to Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt on 2.4.14 tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which are still did not receive an acknowledgement from connecting client. Default value is 1024 for systems with more than 128Mb of memory, and 128 for low memory machines. If server suffers of overload, try to increase this number. Warning! If you make it greater than 1024, it would be better to change TCP_SYNQ_HSIZE in include/net/tcp.h to keep TCP_SYNQ_HSIZE*16<=tcp_max_syn_backlog and to recompile kernel. In include/net/tcp.h. I see the following #define TCP_SYNQ_HSIZE 512 /* Size of SYNACK hash table #*/ Doing the math as specified and changing tcp_max_syn_backlog to 2048, It seems counterintutive to reduce TCP_SYNQ_HSIZE to 128 if I were to make tcp_max_syn_backlog to be 2048. Maybe the documentation is wrong or I haven't figured out the zen in this. Any assistance would be appreciated Regards, Yusuf -- Yusuf Goolamabbas yusufg@outblaze.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html