While this is extremely rare you may encounter a web application that loves to open TCP connections to the point where the default pool of available TCP connections are exhausted. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \System \CurrentControlSet \Services \Tcpip \Parameters] MaxUserPort = 5000 (Max = 65534) Just increase the value from the default 5000. Note: You should investigate if
One of the easiest ways to see what ports a windows system is listening on is to use netstat. To get a comprehensive list open a command prompt netstat -an Active Connections Proto Local Address Foreign Address State TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:1494 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:2598 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP
Hey Firewall Admin–please open up the following ports for me. 🙂 Port Protocol Application protocol System service name n/a GRE GRE (IP protocol 47) Routing and Remote Access n/a ESP IPsec ESP (IP protocol 50) Routing and Remote Access n/a AH IPsec AH (IP protocol 51) Routing and Remote Access 7 TCP Echo Simple TCP/IP
While it is rare in Windows 2003 and above to see any TCP stack corruption it does occure every once in a while? Did you notcie that you can not uninstall the TCP services via the GUI as it is now considered a “core component” of the OS. You can still unisntall this via the