How to have open more than 65k concurrent connections?

D'Arcy J.M. Cain darcy at druid.net
Thu Oct 14 16:42:04 UTC 2010


On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:32:21 -0500
Jorge Amodio <jmamodio at gmail.com> wrote:
> you have only 16-bits for port numbers.

Hint:  That gives you 65K connections *per interface*.  You can listen
on more than one interface.

This is probably off topic for this list though.  The OP needs to find
a network *programming* mailing list or forum.

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