diff --git a/config/rootfiles/core/71/filelists/squid b/config/rootfiles/core/71/filelists/squid
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..2dc8372a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/rootfiles/core/71/filelists/squid
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../common/squid
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lfs/squid b/lfs/squid
index 3ede97610..fde8606db 100644
--- a/lfs/squid
+++ b/lfs/squid
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ $(TARGET) : $(patsubst %,$(DIR_DL)/%,$(objects))
 	   --enable-referer-log \
 	      --enable-snmp \
 	   --with-pthreads --with-dl \
-	   --with-maxfd="16384" \
-	   --with-filedescriptors=16384 \
+	   --with-maxfd="65536" \
+	   --with-filedescriptors=65536 \
 	   --with-large-files \
 	   --with-aio \
 	   --enable-async-io=8 \