It's interesting that you'd think that.

Connection table of a single IP is as high (by default) as 16,383[0].

I've hit this limit personally, and due to limitations in stateful firewalling we had to move to stateless filters inside our network equipment instead.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-clien...

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yjftsjthsd-h 18 hours ago | parent [-]

It's interesting that I agree with the article that you linked?

I'm not contesting that it's completely possible to hit the limits in play, but 16k connections (per IP) is high enough that I don't think that's a common problem, even in public-facing web services. Granted, I suspect the services I've run professionally all dealt with it by making it the problem of a load balancer in front of the application and internal network, but... you probably have that anyways, so I'm still not seeing the problem.

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dijit 18 hours ago | parent [-]

it’s interesting because I think youve internalised the constraint and built mechanisms around it rather than engaging directly with it, subconsciously.

	▲	yjftsjthsd-h 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not sure why that would be interesting either, but no, it's not a constraint I've ever hit so I doubt that I'd bother avoiding it, subconsciously or otherwise.