Re: > 15K simultaneous connections EXAMPLE program/OS config needed, was: Re: POSIX aio vs complet

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:01:33 +0200 (MEST)

Malcolm Beattie wrote:
> Rogier Wolff writes:
> > 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.

Agreed.

Roger.

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