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

[Wayne Lee <linkconnect () googlemail com>]

> 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