network programming: how does s.accept() work?
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com
Tue Feb 26 00:24:36 EST 2008
Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <mailman.1257.1204002544.9267.python-list at python.org>,
> Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>
>> TCP guarantees
>> that no two ephemeral port connections from the same client will use the
>> same port.
>
> Where "client" is defined as "IP Address". You could certainly have a
> remote machine that has multiple IP addresses using the same remote port
> number on different IP addresses for simultaneous connections to the same
> local port.
Correct.
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