Re: 65535 outbound connections
> > On 3/9/07, Niklaus <niklaus@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >I could be wrong in the below description or might have misunderstood
> > >many of the concepts , please correct appropriately.
> > >
> > > 65535 ports can allowed . So on a machine namely C you can have max
> > >65535 outbound connections
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:43:20PM +0200, Atis wrote:
> > There can be simultaneous connections to one port. For example
> > apache's httpd - it listens port 80, does that mean, it can serve only
> > one connection? nope. Once connection is established, it's forwarded
> > to another thread, that have connection id, and processes it.
On 09.03.07 10:34, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> There cannot be simultaneous connections to one port (at least under
> IPv4, not sure if such a thing is possible in IPv6). The way apache
> works, is that when it receives connection, it hands it off to a thread
> on another port. Just do a netstat (or a watch -n1 'netstat -ntp') to
> see it in action.
Yes, there can be multiple connections to one port. Each connection is
uniquely defined by local IP, local port, remote IP, remote port. So, you
only can not have to connections between the same IPs and same ports, but if
you change just one of those parameters, you can create one
(unless your OS' connection table overflows)
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