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From: sgf@brunix (Sam Fulcomer)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Ignorant question - multiple connections within TCP ports?
Summary: Well..., sometimes no
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Date: 20 Jul 89 13:36:57 GMT
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In article <11902@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin) writes:
>In article <4908@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, heberlei@iris.ucdavis.edu (Todd) writes:
>> In article <1765.AA1765@geo-works> bryan@geo-works.UUCP (Bryan Ford) writes:
>> >It appears to me from reading this book that you can have one separate TCP 
>> >connection for each port on a single host.  

Unfortunately some implementations of IP do not allow multiple connections
on listening ports (but then they're not real implementations...). Exos on
a Plexus comes to mind...

Try it, and if it doesn't work it's broken.

Sam
sgf@cfm.brown.edu