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Re: How to have open more than 65k concurrent connections?

  • From: Simon Perreault
  • Date: Thu Oct 14 13:07:41 2010

On 2010-10-14 12:53, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> you've only got 64511 ports per ip  on the box, to use for
> outgoing connections.

As long as you're not connecting to the same destination IP/port pair,
the same source IP/port pair can be reused. So even for outgoing
connections there is virtually no limit.

Simon
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