On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:43:20PM +0200, Atis wrote: > On 3/9/07, Niklaus <niklaus@gmail.com> wrote: > >Hi > > > >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 > > 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. > 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. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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