From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: Beyond 64K TCP connections limit per IP-address Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:19:50 +0200 Message-ID: <82sl84pom1.fsf@mid.bfk.de> References: <7e63f56c0707040050k7d1a9daeq276d7d924ef802e8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: NetDev To: "Robert Iakobashvili" Return-path: Received: from mx01.bfk.de ([193.227.124.2]:56076 "EHLO mx01.bfk.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756127AbXGDIhc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 04:37:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <7e63f56c0707040050k7d1a9daeq276d7d924ef802e8@mail.gmail.com> (Robert Iakobashvili's message of "Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:50:31 +0200") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org * 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. --=20 =46lorian Weimer BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstra=DFe 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99