> The problem in user space is i cannot get a new port > as for every connection. If i get say 65000 requests > and i have 10 real servers behind i cannot create more > than 1024 sockets per application. Also my > specification is that each real server will expect a > unique 5 tuple src ip, src port, dst ip, dst port, > protocol. So we have to tinker with the kernel code. > > Is there any way to get new ports from the application > layer ? Typically, if you are just gonna look up a table of <port, IP addr> to distribute the load, your server should do well as an iterative server itself. But if you find that performance is bad, you could spawn threads to do the submission. -Sarada - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
