On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 13:46 +0530, Niklaus 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 Yup. > 65535 outbound connections No, in the TCP world a connection is essentially identified by src-ip, src-port, dst-ip, dst-port (and I left out e.g. "protocol" since it is always "TCP" in the TCP world). As long as that 4-tuple is unique it works (at least in theory). However you very probably have to set SO_REUSE_ADDR on the local sockets via an ioctl(2). Given an http server listening on one port on one IP address you may have 2^16-1 connection from *every* other IP address (at least in theory - you must be root to get/request an port below - usually - 1024). [...] Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
