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Subject: number of socket connections
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 16:57:07 -0400
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When doing socket programming, what is the maximum socket connections that
can be made in UNIX in FreeBSD: 128 or 255?  I looked in the sys/socket.h
header file and it had a define of 'SOMAXCONN' as 128.

Rajesh Acharya
CTOS/NT/UNIX
Cybertech Intl., Corp.