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. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 5/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian A. Seklecki</b> <<a href="mailto:lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org">lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I've never heard of such a limit; Cisco doesn't put one on thier data<br>sheets, for example. I suspect that the ambient keep-alive traffic (plus<br>netbios and zeroconf discovery) would exceed the available bandwidth in
<br>the spectrum or CPU on the device before any arbitrary max association<br>value kicked in.<br><br>On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Mike Griffin wrote:<br><br>> The connection limits that are set on wireless AP's, is that something that
<br>> is hardcoded into the firmware?<br>><br>> I was thinking of getting a couple of the Linksys GL/GS's, and putting<br>> DD-WRT on them to run a wireless network, but I'm worried about the<br>> connection limit associated with the AP's.
<br>><br>><br>> TIA,<br>><br>><br>> -Mike<br>><br><br>l8*<br> -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA)<br> <a href="http://www.spiritual-machines.org/">http://www.spiritual-machines.org/
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