Re: > 15K simultaneous connections EXAMPLE program/OS config needed, was: Re: POSIX aio vs complet
Malcolm Beattie (mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 09:41:02 +0100 (BST)
Rogier Wolff writes:
> If you're handling lots of outgoing connections (unlikely), you might
> run into trouble. Suppose we want ephemeral (sp?) ports, the kernel
> might say "Sorry, none found" when you've used all of them. This is
> incorrect (but nobody has run into it yet). After one round around the
> port space searching for an unused port, the kernel should just
> allocate a port that's already used. Then you can connect to any
> IP/port, except the one that the existing connection is already
> connected to. If the kernel knows the destination IP/port at that
> time, it should try to avoid that situation. Otherwise, it should just
> hope for the best.
If that were to be implemented, I'd be unhappy with the "hope for the
best": if it wants behaviour like that, it should probably explicitly
ask for it with SO_REUSEADDR or similar.
--Malcolm
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Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Unix Systems Programmer
Oxford University Computing Services
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