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title: Increasing the number of available ephemeral ports
description: Increase the number of available ephemeral ports to prevent deployment issues, particularly in high capacity environments.
component: pingaccess
version: 9.0
page_id: pingaccess:reference_guides:pa_increasing_the_number_of_available_ephemeral_ports
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingaccess/9.0/reference_guides/pa_increasing_the_number_of_available_ephemeral_ports.html
revdate: January 12, 2024
section_ids:
  about-this-task: About this task
  steps: Steps
---

# Increasing the number of available ephemeral ports

Increase the number of available ephemeral ports to prevent deployment issues, particularly in high capacity environments.

## About this task

This setting increases the performance and capacity of network, specifically the TCP socket, connectivity, enabling PingAccess to handle a high volume of concurrent requests.

## Steps

1. View the ephemeral ports with the `netsh int ipv4 show dynamicportrange tcp` command.

2. Increase the ephemeral ports with the `netsh int ipv4 set dynamicport tcp start=1025 num=64510` command.

3. Reboot the machine.

4. View and confirm the updated port range with the `netsh int ipv4 show dynamicportrange tcp` command.