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    Max Client TCP Ports?

    Th Thanks for the feedback, but I think you misread my question or I asked it poorly. You're addressing the question from the perspective of the server, and in that sense you are correct. Thousands of clients all connect to the same server port (for example, port 443). My question is from the...
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    Max Client TCP Ports?

    65535 is often mentioned as the max number of TCP client ports on a single server. However, isn't that per local IP? Let's say I have a server with 5 IP addresses, and 5 processes, each communicating on a different IP. Since a socket consists of 4 elements (src_ip, src_port, dst_ip, dst_port)...
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