SUMMARY : limitation of no.of telnet session

From: Sun Solaris User (sunusr@hwr.bhel.co.in)
Date: Fri Jun 25 1999 - 22:32:56 CDT


The problem was due to shortage of ptys ,which was resolved by increasing
the no of ptys.Default value is 48 and we had increased it to 128

In /etc/system file add following entry
set pt_cnt=128

and reconfigure and reboot the system
# touch /reconfigure
# Breboot

> Sun Solaris User wrote:
> >
> > We have a SUN E450 with solaris 2.6 on it.We are facing problem in
> > telnet/rlogin from other system to this SUN system after number of user reaches to 40.
> > It gives error as following
> > telnetd: Open /dev/ptmx : No such device
> >
> > and for rlogin :
> >
> > Read error from network;connection reset by peer
> >
> > Is there any parameter for TCP/IP session?
>



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