netdev - Re: Beyond 64K TCP connections limit per IP-address

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Date:	Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:19:50 +0200
From:	Florian Weimer <fweimer@....de>
To:	"Robert Iakobashvili" <coroberti@...il.com>
Cc:	NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Beyond 64K TCP connections limit per IP-address

* Robert Iakobashvili:

> If I am correct, a TCP server can make up to
> 64K accepts for a port at a single IP-address.

I don't think such a limit exists.  In typical configurations, a
single client IP address can only establish a few tens of thousands of
TCP connections to one server port.  But as soon as multiple clients
are involved, there is virtually no protocol-imposed limit.

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