Yes, you answered my questions. Thanks! I didn't know about (x2) RFC and
the 2*N stuff. Very enlightening.
advantage. IOW, they may say, well, we've got 1 billion users so we have 2
billion connections to use. We know that our system can't handle more than
within the RFC, heh heh heh heh.... I most definitely see AOL (and other)
users using way more than 2 connections. 10 is not that uncommon.
"Kristofer Gafvert" <kgafvert@NEWSilopia.com> wrote in message
news:xn0eaacqz3iazki007@news.microsoft.com...
> One client can (technically) open any number of connections. The HTTP RFC
> does however say that a client should not open any more than 2 connections
> to a webserver. So if all clients do that, you can have a maximum of 5
> concurrent users.
>
> Proxy servers may open 2*N connections to a webserver, where N is the
> number of clients connected to the proxy server, requesting a webpage on
> your webserver. AOL may work with proxies for their clients, so their
> proxy server may have more than 2 connections to your webserver.
>
> To add to this, when http keep-alive is used, the connection is not
> released until after a specified amount of time, which means that there
> can be 0 active connections, and 10 idle connections during this specified
> time. So XP Pro is just not suited to be used as a webserver.
>
> I hope this answered your questions.
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Kristofer Gafvert
>
http://www.gafvert.info/iis/ - IIS Related Info
>
>
> Frankster wrote:
>
>>>Windows XP Pro and Windows 2000 Pro both comes with IIS, but with the
>>>limitation of 10 concurrent connections, so you don't want to use it as a
>>>webserver.
>>
>>Could you please expand on this XP limit a little? I know about the
>>infamous 10 connection limit, but, as it applies to incoming IIS
>>connections, what does it mean, exactly?
>>
>>IOW, I run W2K3 and my firewall tells me that frequently just one user
>>will use 2, 3, 4 or more connections. AOL services and the like (caching)
>>sometimes use as many as 10 connections for one user. Presumably to
>>achieve better performance on the user's end.
>>
>>Anyway, I would guess that 10 connections means 10 connections, not users.
>>Right? You might get a few users connected at one time or you might only
>>get one, depending. Right?
>>
>>Just curious.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>-Frank
