diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index ec0bc2128..1d0276720 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-03-09  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* include/cygwin/socket.h: Set SOMAXCONN to Winsock2 value.
+
 2003-03-08  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@redhat.com>
 
 	* syscalls.cc (unlink): Always attempt to use FILE_FLAG_CLOSE_ON_DELETE
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/socket.h b/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/socket.h
index 3a40c12a3..f89a8ed87 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/socket.h
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/socket.h
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ struct msghdr
 #define PF_MAX          AF_MAX
 
 /* Maximum queue length specificable by listen.  */
-#define SOMAXCONN       5
+#define SOMAXCONN       0x7fffffff
 
 /* Flags we can use with send/ and recv. */
 #define MSG_OOB         0x1             /* process out-of-band data */