Jorge Amodio (jmamodio) writes:
> you have only 16-bits for port numbers.
65k port numbers != number of connections.
The number of open connections (if we're talking TCP) is
limited by the number of max file descriptors in the kernel
(fs.file_max).
See also:
http://www.network-builders.com/maximum-simultaneous-network-connections-t56317.html
You could have hundreds of thousands of connections to
the same (destination IP, destination port).
In practice, there are other limitations:
http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html is good reading, even though
it is a few years old.
