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

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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.

It is possible (and common) for a VPN to interpose additional protocols
between TCP and the (normal) carrier protocol. So, you /can/ find TCP over
UDP over IP (for instance).

> OSI, IPX, or DECnet stacks do not implement TCP at layer 4 to my
> knowledge... right?


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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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