Ethernet Card Limitations to Number of Connections?

[RW]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:29:57 -0400
Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:

fine.
> 
> A single IP address is limited to ~65,000 connections 

Just to clarify, that's a limitation on outgoing connections, rather
than all connections.

>due to the nature of IP networks.

I think it's more of a stack implementation issue, I don't think there's
any intrinsic reason why two outgoing connections couldn't share the
same port.