From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 23 15:26:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22074 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 15:26:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA22065 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 15:26:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.1/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id AAA21549 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 00:26:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix, from userid 101) id 2DF98155A; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 23:58:09 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 23:58:09 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This just in: Microsoft/Sears Merger Message-ID: <19981223235809.B29194@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4.1.19981223005658.00b44ee0@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981223111457.009f4ee0@genesis.ispace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981223111457.009f4ee0@genesis.ispace.com>; from Drew Baxter on Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 11:24:16AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT/ELF ctm#4871 AMD-K6 MMX @ 200 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org According to Drew Baxter: > handle the haul. As it goes I think Windows has a 'socket limit' as far as > how many open connections it can have inbound or outbound. Pretty inane if > you ask me. It was only in one of beta of NT4. The limitation is now only in the Licence (after much lobbying from Tim O'Reilly -- yes, that O'Reilly guy) and is pretty much the sum of the differences between NTS and NTW (there are differences in how the OS is tuned but the code is the same). -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #2: Sun Nov 8 01:22:20 CET 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message