Maximum network connections

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Roger

I am trying to determine how many servers I need to
implement a web site. I need to know how many concurrent
connections are available through Win2K. I know that
limitations can be placed on IIS to reduce the allocations
but this does not tell me how many connections Win2K can
handle without IIS.
 
(...just waiting for someone to tell me I'm totally wrong
now! :S)

Actually, I believe IPv4 is 4 octets which would not be
2^16 but 2^32 and then of course IPv6 would be more than
that. Other messages on the board indicate that it may be
memory restricted (main memory) but no conclusion on
whether Win2k uses virtual memory.
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I stand corrected! (Had a feeling that would happen...)

So, theoretically, 1 node could have a connection to every other node with a
unique address in the IPv4 address space... all 4.1 billion of them...
(Erm... yeah... I doubt any current hardware can handle it though!)

BTW... does anyone actually use IPv6 yet? I've heard of it, but never seen
it used...
 
All the previous calculations from the other folks are basically correct,
but you will run out of resources before then.

Depending on what you are trying to accomplish you should really look at
some of the benchmark sites to give a real idea on how much the system will
handle.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/web/default.asp#section13

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Best regards,
Brian Oakes, MCSE
Microsoft Product Support
Windows 2000 Server Networking Team

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