[130783] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to have open more than 65k concurrent connections?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Thu Oct 14 12:44:09 2010
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:42:04 -0400
From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
To: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinBVr1mW3ngNO+hftd8nqKaQw+K7_2Kk57MAaZg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:32:21 -0500
Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com> wrote:
> you have only 16-bits for port numbers.
Hint: That gives you 65K connections *per interface*. You can listen
on more than one interface.
This is probably off topic for this list though. The OP needs to find
a network *programming* mailing list or forum.
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