[ILUG] windows vs. linux comparison

[Mark O'Herlihy]

Padraig Brady wrote:
>> NT4 & 2k workstation have a max number of incoming connections 
>> restriction
>> of between somewhere 5 & 10.
> 
> Are you sure about this. Is this any incomming connections, connections
> to a particular port, or is it just IIS that limits the connections?
> We've run a web server(imatix) on Win2K workstation here and made loads
> of conncurrent connections to it fine. My theory is that it's only IIS
> on workstation which limits connections to 10. Note apache has a listen
> backlog parameter that seems to be ignored on doze?

 From what I can remember, there is was such uproar over the restriction, that 
they backed down from implmenting it in the software, but implmented it in the 
EULA anyway.

//\/\ark


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