Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:06:21 +0400 | From | Evgeniy Polyakov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] Network receive deadlock prevention for NBD |
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On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 05:46:07PM -0700, David Miller (davem@davemloft.net) wrote: > From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> > Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:37:06 +0400 > > > Does it? I though it is possible to only have 64k of working sockets per > > device in TCP. > > Where does this limit come from? > > You think there is something magic about 64K local ports, > but if remote IP addresses in the TCP socket IDs are all > different, number of possible TCP sockets is only limited > by "number of client IPs * 64K" and ram :-)
I talked about working sockets, but not about how many of them system can have at all :)
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