For the most scenarios the maximum number of connections between the same client and server will be smaller, because an unbound client socket would reside in th

For the most scenarios the maximum number of connections between the same client and server will be smaller, because an unbound client socket would reside in the ephemeral port range: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeral_port http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeral_port