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		richardw on Sept 23, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One Million Concurrent TCP connections You can have multiple connections on the same port from the same client. E.g. all connections via HTTP commonly go over the same port and a single browser usually has 2-4 simultaneous connections to the server. They don't use multiple ports to achieve this.

caf on Sept 23, 2011 [–]

They use multiple ports on the client side to achieve this - the "client port" part of the tuple varies.

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