network programming: how does s.accept() work?

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Tue Feb 26 00:12:47 EST 2008


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.



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