[130787] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to have open more than 65k concurrent connections?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Perreault)
Thu Oct 14 13:07:23 2010
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:07:15 -0400
From: Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4CB73581.5040107@bogus.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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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