Actually, the quintet of [protocol, src_ip, src_port, dst_ip, dst_port] is what'... | Hacker News

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huhtenberg on Sept 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: One Million Concurrent TCP connections

Actually, the quintet of [protocol, src_ip, src_port, dst_ip, dst_port] is what's unique (protocol being TCP or UDP)

pacala on Sept 23, 2011 [–]

Good point. Each unique client (address, port) can get a separate connection on a given/fixed server (address, port).

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