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Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 11:43:38 -0600
To: "M-Trade" <m-trade@hotpop.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org>
Subject: Re: max telnet connections
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At 08:05 PM 4/6/2002 +0800, M-Trade wrote:
>Is it possible - or even advisable - to have about 2,000 simutaneous telnet
>connections on one FreeBSD box?

Assuming you're referring to interactive logins where a pseudo tty needs to 
be allocated, you can have up to 256 because pseudo ttys can be created as 
tty[pqrsPQRS][0-9a-v].
>David Ur

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