Max outbound connections to different servers limited to 65k

[ML]

Hi,

I am trying to make a large number of connections to multiple servers
from a simple tcp client. My ephemeral port range is
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 3000     64000

but it seems like after the number of connections reaches the allowed
port_range, I get:
bind(): Address already in use
I am connecting to 3 different servers.

So does that mean that I can only have a max of 65535-1024
connections, even if I am connecting to different servers.

I was assuming that the kernel will use the entire tuple to store the
information and would allow reusing the ephemeral port if the dst is
different.

 Is there any option/patch to enable more that 65k connections.

Thanks for your time.

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