On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:28:21 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >If the client is using multiple port numbers then it should be able to >sustain multiple conversations with a single server. TCP/IP does not allow >concurrent multiple conversations between a single src-IP:port dst-IP port >pair. > Of course packet switching can create a very credible illusion of concurrency, as ssh does with tunneling, for example, multiple virtual X11 connections via a single real connection.
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