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Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux

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On Tuesday July 28 2015 17:27, in comp.os.linux.networking, "Denis Corbin"
<news@dm3c.org> wrote:

> Le 28/07/2015 18:51, Lew Pitcher a écrit :
>> On Tuesday July 28 2015 12:29, in comp.os.linux.networking, "Denis Corbin"
>> <news@dm3c.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 28/07/2015 11:15, Jorgen Grahn wrote :
>>>> On Mon, 2015-07-27, g918273l@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a specific question on implementing a load balancer or a TCP/IP
>>>>> server program that does TCP/IP.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since port number is 16 bits, there are a max of only 65536 ports on a
>>>>> single Linux box at any given time.
>>>>> And TCP/IP needs a port number to talk to the outside world.
>>>>
>>>> Nitpick: it helps if you write "TCP" when you mean TCP.  "TCP/IP" was
>>>> a term you saw a lot in the 1990s, but I never understood what it
>>>> meant ... possibly it was simply used when "IP" didn't look impressive
>>>> enough.
>>>>
>>>> /Jorgen
>>>>
>>>
>>> TCP/IP means TCP over IP ... (TCP = layer 4 of OSI model, IP  is at
>>> layer 3)... OK now, I have not seen TCP over anything else than IP ...
>> 
>> Then, you haven't looked at VPN technologies.
> 
> yes, but these are still part of the IP stack... so it's still "TCP over
> IP".


OK then, how about RFC 1791: TCP and UDP over IPX
(https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1791) ?

TCP is TCP; it corresponds (loosly) to an OSI level 4 protocol (loosly,
because the internetworking protocols were not developed to the OSI model).

It matters not to TCP whether it is carried by IP, IPX, DECNET (or any other
OSI level 3 "network layer" protocol), or encapsulated in UDP packets (or any
other OSI level 4 protocol), or even by Avian carrier.

So, TCP can refer to *any number* of TCP/network_layer combinations, *one* of
which is TCP/IP.


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-- 
Lew Pitcher
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number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux g918273l@gmail.com - 2015-07-27 14:44 -0700
  Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-07-27 23:11 +0100
    Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2015-07-28 08:04 +0100
      Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2015-07-27 23:32 -0800
        Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-07-28 09:19 +0100
  Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-07-28 09:15 +0000
    Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux Denis Corbin <news@dm3c.org> - 2015-07-28 18:29 +0200
      Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-07-28 12:51 -0400
        Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux Denis Corbin <news@dm3c.org> - 2015-07-28 23:27 +0200
          Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-07-28 18:27 -0400
            Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux Denis Corbin <news@dm3c.org> - 2015-07-29 09:18 +0200
  Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux Jamma Tino Schwarze <jamma-usenet@tisc.de> - 2015-08-06 10:12 +0000
    Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux JT <JT-reply-only@newsgroup.nl> - 2015-08-06 13:31 +0200
      Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-06 17:40 +0000
      Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> - 2015-08-06 17:04 +0000
      Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux Jamma Tino Schwarze <jamma-usenet@tisc.de> - 2015-08-26 13:31 +0000
        Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-08-26 18:33 +0100
          Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux Jamma Tino Schwarze <jamma-usenet@tisc.de> - 2015-08-27 14:06 +0000
  Re: number of simultaneous tcp/ip connections on 32 bit linux Dumpsdrive Drive <fromdrive@gmail.com> - 2015-12-19 06:37 -0800

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