> You may try to decrease the limit with > > echo 8192 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_orphans Those connections spawned by the p2p applic (mldonkey)is not orphaned. The is no setting in that program to restict number of connections. So large number of connections are made, but they are all "healthy". Problem is the external router is not capabled of handling so many connections and it is DoSed. __________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? http://bb.yahoo.co.jp/