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

  • From: Wayne Lee
  • Date: Thu Oct 14 13:33:38 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.

I suspect it has more to do with NAT connection tracking on his DSL router.


Wayne





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