[130788] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to have open more than 65k concurrent connections?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne Lee)
Thu Oct 14 13:33:30 2010
In-Reply-To: <4CB738C3.6010505@viagenie.ca>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:33:20 +0100
From: Wayne Lee <linkconnect@googlemail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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 =A0on 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
