On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:12 +0000, Niels Provos wrote: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In order to open more than 2^16 connections (HTTP connections in my > > case) *from* one machine, you need to use multiple local IPs, > because > > the maximum local port number is 65536. > > evhttp_connection_set_local_address already exists and is suitable > for > > this. > > Your assessment seems not quite correct. TCP connections are > identified by their 4-tuple (src ip, src port, dst ip, dst port). > So, the 2^16 port limitation comes into play only if you are opening > connections to the same IP address. If you talk to multiple > different IP addresses, port reuse is not a problem. > > Niels. > >
Not sure I follow - I'm trying to open 1M connections from one machine to another machine. Only 2 machines are involved, and i'm only concerned with the client machine - the server already exists. Given that part of that 4-tuple is a local ip/port pair, I assumed you'd be limited to 2^16 connections from one local ip, because of the limit on port numbers? RJ _______________________________________________ Libevent-users mailing list Libevent-users@monkey.org http://monkeymail.org/mailman/listinfo/libevent-users
