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


From: Simon Perreault <simon.perreault () viagenie ca>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:07:15 -0400

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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