Re: [ledbat] list of reasons for needing multiple TCP connections

Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com> Thu, 27 November 2008 15:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ledbat] list of reasons for needing multiple TCP connections
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On 2008-11-25, at 1:28, Stanislav Shalunov wrote:
> Home NATs
> ("routers") don't generally crash when you run BitTorrent.  The
> "mostly idle" part doesn't matter for state consumption, naturally.
>
> Thousands and tens of thousands of connections (UDP state counts) is
> another matter.

Yes. As a datapoint, my home NAT reboots when I nmap through it, but  
has no issue with BitTorrent.

Lars
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