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From: yerk55 on 15 Apr 2010 08:48
I'm trying to settle a dispute I'm having with someone. According to
this MS KB (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314882): The max inbound
connections on XP Pro is 10. We want to run a small freeware DHCP
server from a XP Pro SP2 box, with over 10 client PC's on the same
LAN.

My collegue seems to think beacuse of the 10-connection limit
mentioned above, it wont work. I argue that it won't matter because
DHCP doesn't maintain a lasting TCP connection. The clients send a
broadcast, get a reply, a few other handshaking packets, they get
their IP and the chatter is over. Am I right, and there should be no
problem using XP Pro as a DHCP server for 10+ hosts?

As a followup question, does the 10-connection limit mean if I did run
some kind of server on XP Pro that depends on persistant connections
(ie, irc server, ftp server) that only 10 hosts could use that server?

TIA
From: ju.c on 17 Apr 2010 03:43
See this page
http://half-open.com/home_en.htm


ju.c


"yerk55" <yerk55(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:80df3e17-d517-4f51-b230-5bd996d831c6(a)r18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
> I'm trying to settle a dispute I'm having with someone. According to
> this MS KB (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314882): The max inbound
> connections on XP Pro is 10. We want to run a small freeware DHCP
> server from a XP Pro SP2 box, with over 10 client PC's on the same
> LAN.
>
> My collegue seems to think beacuse of the 10-connection limit
> mentioned above, it wont work. I argue that it won't matter because
> DHCP doesn't maintain a lasting TCP connection. The clients send a
> broadcast, get a reply, a few other handshaking packets, they get
> their IP and the chatter is over. Am I right, and there should be no
> problem using XP Pro as a DHCP server for 10+ hosts?
>
> As a followup question, does the 10-connection limit mean if I did run
> some kind of server on XP Pro that depends on persistant connections
> (ie, irc server, ftp server) that only 10 hosts could use that server?
>
> TIA
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