On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:45:43PM -0400, Brian Dickson wrote:
> The problem, I think, is TCP itself, not TCP support within
> implementations. E.g. resource limits per IP address (16 bits of port
> number) don't scale to current-size Internet scale.
It is possible to host >100000 connections on 1 IP address and 1 port, and
this happens in practice. Think, again, of webservers, which all have to
listen on port 80, yet support lots of clients simultaneously.
Bert
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