It's 10 half-open (SYN_SENT) outbound TCP connections as I recall. - S -----Original Message----- From: goemon@anime.net <goemon@anime.net> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:26 To: Glen Turner <gdt@gdt.id.au> Cc: nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu> Subject: Re: Best utilizing fat long pipes and large file transfer On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Glen Turner wrote:

Then there's the deliberate nobbling of the TCP implementation, such as the restriction to ten of connections to Windows Xp SP3. Apparently you're meant to buy Windows Server if you are running P2P applications :-)

are you quite sure it is *10 tcp connections*? have you tested this? -Dan