[Beowulf] running out of rsh ports

[Joe Landman]

Bruce Allen wrote:
> rsh typically uses ports in the 513-1023 range.  With a 640 node cluster 
> we are running out of ports.  This leads to messages such as:
> "rcmd: socket: All ports in use"
> 
> Are there any standard solutions to this other than 'use ssh'?  We 
> already have net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle = 1 in /etc/sysctl.conf

You are likely out of luck unless you hack the inetd/xinetd source to 
allow non-privileged ports to connect.

Is there something in particular you are doing that requires rsh versus 
other tools?

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