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Server/Client limitation

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Hi,
Im starting a program for my work that collects data from some computers via network. I want to use the built-in network functions. Is there a limit for connections at one time?
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I don't think there is a hard limit for active network connections. At least not in PureBasic, the operating system may have a limit, i am not sure. If the active conncections does not go into the thousends, i would not worry.
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Each IP address can handle 65,535 ports.
By convention the first 1024 ports are reserved (but they can still be used).
The operating system takes care of assigning a free port for each client at connection.
Remember to close each connection after use to free the port.
It is possible that PB also has a limitation.
(For more information, see: sockets)
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Purebasic has no limit by itself. But it's quite unhandy to work with a lot of connections because you can not start each connection in its own thread.
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Marc56us wrote:Each IP address can handle 65,535 ports.
By convention the first 1024 ports are reserved (but they can still be used).
The operating system takes care of assigning a free port for each client at connection.
Remember to close each connection after use to free the port.
It is possible that PB also has a limitation.
(For more information, see: sockets)
The 65535 limit is only for clients. A server can theoretically handle 65535 connection for each client.
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The maximum limit for a process listening on a certain port on your linux machine is the maximum limit of file descriptors the process is allowed to use.
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Ok thanks for the answers. It's about 30 to 40 machines right now, but itay be some more in the future. So I guess there shouldn't be a problem.
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