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Subject: Re: Ethernet Card Limitations to Number of Connections?
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:29:57 -0400
Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote:

fine.
> 
> A single IP address is limited to ~65,000 connections 

Just to clarify, that's a limitation on outgoing connections, rather
than all connections.

>due to the nature of IP networks.

I think it's more of a stack implementation issue, I don't think there's
any intrinsic reason why two outgoing connections couldn't share the
same port.