maximum orignated TCP connections

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Lloyd Matthews

How many -originated- (as opposed to received) TCP (and
specifically SSL) unicast connections can be handled
simultaneously by Windows 2000 Pro?

We have an application where we can't use multicast due
to a requirement for SSL, so we need to simultaneously
unicast SSL/TCP to possibly hundreds of other systems.

-Thanks! Lloyd Matthews
 
The Windows 2000 TCP/IP implementation details are readily available on the
Microsoft site. But off the top of my head, ephemeral ports 1025-5000 are
available by default. This can be increased. Again, it's all on the MS web
site.

As a general consideration, make sure you're very RAM-heavy if you're going
to try this. TCP is memory-intensive when you're generating this number of
connections, and SSL is going to make things worse.
 
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