> > I was surprised that TCP-over-IPv6 and UDP-over-IPv6 didn't increase
> > the port number space. I know it's off-topic here, but anyone know why
> > they didn't? It surely must have been considered.
> It would not make much sense, between 2 hosts you can already have
> 65536*65536 possible connections*, which should be more than
> enough(tm) ;) I wonder if there are any hosts actually using more than
> 65536 connections at the same time.
True enough, however, you can only have 65536 connections to a single service
on a given port.
I can assure you that this is a problem for real-world applications in some
cases, so yes, there are such users.
Ned
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