Windows 7 outgoing connections limit

Also, is there anything special I should be doing with my sockets? The default socket options should work fine unless you're planning on handing sockets around between processes. Great, thanks, I'm not planning on handing sockets around between processes or anything. It's simple, I'll be assigning a single IP to each account, and ensuring there are not more accounts assigned to an IP than ephemeral ports.

To increase the maximum number of ephemeral ports on Windows, follow these steps: Start Registry Editor. Normally to scale to more than 65K ports you would use multiple servers in a cluster. Supertux Supertux 7, 10 10 gold badges 40 40 silver badges 47 47 bronze badges.

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Hot Network Questions. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows 7 Networking. Tim 0. Sign in to vote. Here is the scenario Or is it some other number of connections???? Please help. We do not want to use a server platform unless absolutely necessary. Thank you Tim. Monday, January 19, PM.

Something like this? If it's present, the limitation is there. Roman Pope Member Member posts. Ouch, I've done this patching before, but only once. I completely forgot about the limitation. I have another question: what would be close to optimal number of open half-ports?

I believe, for XP, it was recommended to set it to I've done this patching before, but only once Some Windows updates will restore original tcpip. Over couple of years, I had to reapply the patch only once.

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