On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 09:22, Mark Crispin wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2003, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > Multiple > > connections eat more memory and more network resources. > > How did you arrive at this conclusion? I suggest that you have fallen > prey to an urban myth. Like most myths, there is a vestige of historical > truth; in the NCP protocol used prior to 1983, network connections did > consume costly resources. This was one of the things that TCP fixed.
With stateful firewalls or NATs each connection would require at least some memory and CPU. I didn't mean they'd necessarily cost much, but they're not free either.
