On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > standard IRC port is 6667 Although it is common to have
> > 5555,6660-6669,&occasionally 31337 open. I personally always use 6666 or
> > 6665 seeing as they are 99% of the time always open ports.
> What difference would using these other ports usually make? Less splitting,
> faster connecting, connecting at all?
Each server port has its own pool of buffered memory and own ammount
of maxclients less used ports are usually easier to get on and a tiny bit
faster. Also from the OS side you might have a busy server like
irc.freei.net, port 6667 is constantly getting pounded so you have to wait
inqueue for your connection to be accept()'d port 6666 is a more obscure
port so thus less connections in-queue. Oh yeah the above statement about
memory allocation may not be true for all servers but quite a few on EF
are setup that way. But the main issue is really the incoming queue of
connections to a port.
