How many simultaneous connections are possible?

[BluBlu]

Hello,

how many simultaneous connections are possible?

Thanks!

Greetings
BluBlu

[Inf0Byt3]

AFAIK windows has 65535 ports, but some of them are reserved. So I guess the number of connections is somewhere around that... What connections do you refere to? Simple incoming/outgoing connections or half-open connections (needed for P2P programs) ?

[BluBlu]

Hi!

Thanks for your answer. I want to know how many half-open connections (P2P) the firewall can handle.

BluBlu

[Inf0Byt3]

I think it can handle all of them :). The problem is how many does your operating system handle. If you use windows xp, the maximum nr. of connections in 10. Microsoft took this measure to slow down internet-propagating worms that used to connect to thousands of random ip's. Try searching on google to find out more about this limit. Generally, P2P programs don't like firewalls so try messing a bit with the firewall rules. (block all other packets, etc.)