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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
To: "Robert Iakobashvili" <coroberti@gmail.com>
Cc: "Evgeniy Polyakov" <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>,
	NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Beyond 64K TCP connections limit per IP-address
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:06:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070704120652.262380eb.dada1@cosmosbay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7e63f56c0707040240p4ec962fajd93074909b07ea03@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 11:40:48 +0200
"Robert Iakobashvili" <coroberti@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/4/07, Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:50:31AM +0200, Robert Iakobashvili (coroberti@gmail.com) wrote:
> > > If I am correct, a TCP server can make up to
> > > 64K accepts for a port at a single IP-address.
> >
> > No, it is essentially unlimited - linux uses local/remote addr/port
> > tuples for hash chains, so there is no per-addr limits.
> > If there is some kind of binds, then yes, only 64k ports per address.
> 
> Thanks, it clarified me the issue.
> Probably, I am experiencing some local problem with
> the web-server I am using for tests.

If your setup is :

Server A with one IP address listening to port 80

'Client B' with one IP address, trying to open many sockets to A (port 80)

Then yes you have a 64k limit for this particular client B. Just add 15 more clients (or 16 IP addresses on B) if you really want to stress A ;)


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-04 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-04  7:50 Beyond 64K TCP connections limit per IP-address Robert Iakobashvili
2007-07-04  8:19 ` Florian Weimer
2007-07-04  9:36 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-07-04  9:40   ` Robert Iakobashvili
2007-07-04 10:06     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2007-07-05  9:28       ` Robert Iakobashvili

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