[wplug] Wireless AP's - Connection Limit

[Max Putas]

Maybe he's referring to the TCP connection limit? Thousands of TCP
connections can certainly bring down a router; especially with something
like an improperly configured Bittorrent client.

On 5/7/07, Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org> wrote:
>
>
> I've never heard of such a limit; Cisco doesn't put one on thier data
> sheets, for example.  I suspect that the ambient keep-alive traffic (plus
> netbios and zeroconf discovery) would exceed the available bandwidth in
> the spectrum or CPU on the device before any arbitrary max association
> value kicked in.
>
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Mike Griffin wrote:
>
> > The connection limits that are set on wireless AP's, is that something
> that
> > is hardcoded into the firmware?
> >
> > I was thinking of getting a couple of the Linksys GL/GS's, and putting
> > DD-WRT on them to run a wireless network, but I'm worried about the
> > connection limit associated with the AP's.
> >
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> >
> > -Mike
> >
>
> l8*
>         -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
>                http://www.spiritual-machines.org/
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-- 
Thanks,

Max Putas
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Graduate Student, Telecommunications
Systems Analyst, Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
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