On 3/9/07, Niklaus <niklaus@xxxxxxxxx> 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
Per fundamental TCP/IP it is 65,535 per IP, not per machine. You can have a lot of IPs per machine / NIC. A lot of Apache setups use hundreds or more IPs for a single NIC interface.
What i was thinking was to send to another machines A and B from the same port [X] and then when we get data from it to [X] we can the send it to the correct application using stateful mapping or storing some information . The machines A and B are unaware of this mapping from the C machine. Can we increase it by anymeans in the kernel. Does we have patches for the above i read on the web that terry lambert has got 1.6 million simultaneous connection ? how is the way it is done. http://kerneltrap.org/node/277
I don't know he did it, but with 160 alias IPs you would just need 10,000 sockets / IP. You may have to tweak the kernel some to get enough socket descriptors etc., but that seems like it should just work to me. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
