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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">One of my clients is sending extremely large client packets. Specifically it has hundreds of LDAP connections and these are reported in the [ports] section, however I am not getting all of the data and the hobbitd process is reporting the following warning:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Latest errormessages:<BR>
Oversize status msg from 10.44.85.244 for dir0.lon.oss.colt.net:ports truncated (n=273337, limit=262144)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Digging through the code I can find some references to an environment variable called "MAXMSG_CLIENT" which brings up two questions:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1. Can I set this so that I can allow for a larger client message?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2. Where should I set it to ensure that it takes effect?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">|\/|artin</FONT>
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