Re: Port numbers and IPv6

[jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    > From: Ned Freed <ned.freed at mrochek.com>

    >> You're saying that there are servers which have close to (or more)
    >> than 65K connections to a *single client IP address* (i.e. it may be a
    >> NAT, with a number of hosts behind it)?

    > Yes, that is exactly what I am saying

Wow. Can you tell us a little bit about what those client sites look like?

(Not the servers; I'm curious about the things at the far end which are
generating that many client connections. They must be huge NAT boxes, no? I
have a hard time conceiving of a single computer generating that many client
instances.)

	Noel

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