On Thursday 23 October 2003 03:56 pm, Simper, Brian D wrote:
> I am working with a server that will act as a firewall so it will, of
> course, see a lot of traffic.  What is the procedure for tuning Red Hat
> Linux 7.3 or 9.0 to increase the number of network connections the OS
> can accept?  Is there a way to see the setting?  Are there any general
> tuning that any of you have seen that might help?

There are quite a few tweaks that can be done.. some of which help more than 
others depending on a user's specific situation.  This page is a really good 
starting place for all things Linux server tuning related.

http://people.redhat.com/alikins/system_tuning.html