maximum number of outgoing connections

[John-Mark Gurney]

Igor Sysoev wrote this message on Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 19:11 +0400:
> It seems that FreeBSD can not make more than
> 
> net.inet.ip.portrange.last - net.inet.ip.portrange.first
> 
> simultaneous outgoing connections, i.e., no more than about 64k.
> 
> If I made ~64000 connections 127.0.0.1:XXXX > 127.0.0.1:80, then
> connect() to an external address returns EADDRNOTAVAIL.

Isn't this more of a limitation of TCP/IP than FreeBSD?  because you
need to treat the srcip/srcport/dstip/dstport as a unique value, and
in your test, you are only changing one of the four...  Have you tried
running a second we server on port 8080, and see if you can connect
another ~64000 connections to that port too?

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