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Actually every client IP+port / server IP+port pair. Linux uses 60999 − 32768 for ephemeral ports so can support 28e3^2 = 784 million connections per IP pair.
by akvadrako 5y ago
Actually every client IP+port / server IP+port pair. Linux uses 60999 − 32768 for ephemeral ports so can support 28e3^2 = 784 million connections per IP pair.
- mypalmike 5y agoExcept your service is almost certainly listening on one non-ephemeral port. But having "only" tens of thousands of connections per client is rarely a problem in practice, apart from some load testing scenarios (such as the experiment here, where they opened a number of ports so they could test a large number of connections with a single client machine).
- charcircuit 5y ago1 IP can correspond to multiple different clients.
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- mypalmike 5y agoWith NAT, right. I guess there may be situations where client ports for a single server IP dry up due to NAT, but I've not encountered that issue.