From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-10-20T20:35:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Sockets Vulnerable?

On 20.10.2006 13:12, unni.tallman wrote:
> I have a TCPServer listening on a port. I forked a 500 odd TCP Clients
> and tried to connect to this TCPServer. Around 300 clients got
> connected, others gave the error :
> 
>                    Connection timed out - connect(2) (Errno::ETIMEDOUT)
> 
> I wasn't able to connect anymore clients to that server. Does this mean
> that ruby TCPServer can serve only a limited number of clients?

It is a limitation of the underlying network functionality not of Ruby. 
  If you are on Windows non server version a very strict limitation is 
actually built into the OS.

Note that it is generally not a good idea to allow arbitrary numbers of 
clients to be served.

Regards

	robert