They say "connection" but really mean a "state". Handshake completed or not, a state must be created. Most torrent clients also self limit the number of "half opened" connections, as not to kill your $200 firewall with a flood of new states. I've seen a default of between 10 and 50.
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek < [email protected]> wrote: > >> https://torrentfreak.com/popular-torrents-being-sabotaged-by-ipv6-peer-flood-150619/ >> > > That's really strange — it looks like µTorrent is using up a connection > slot even before the peer has performed the µTP three-way handshake. > > -- Juliusz > >
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