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How load balancer / web server handle concurrent request on a single port
amantrehan06
Sep 24, 2023
Hi, I am curious to understand that the entry level webserver/load balancer that accepts traffic from all over the globe handles soo many request on a given port ? I understand we can vertically scale it or horizontally. Even if we horizontally scale it there has to be some sever that accepts clients connections and distributes that request to the underline services.
Thus whichever software/hardware is sitting at the front gate handles Millions of requests on a SINGLE port ?
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Ricardo Franco2 years ago
There's no limit on the number of requests received in a single port, given the server has enough resources to handle that.
There's, though, a 64k open socket limit between the server and a single client. That means the same client cannot send more than 64k simultane...
designgurus 2 years ago
The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP) are fundamental to how the internet works. TCP/IP allows multiple connections from different clients to a server on the same port because each connection is uniquely identified by a combination of so...
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