Just a technical note on the 64K myth section. My understanding is that TCP connections track by the tuple (remote_host, remote_port, local_host, local_port) so a single client can have 64k unique connections to each port on a remote machine.
If that is actually the case, the document gets its myth correction wrong (by a lot) :)
You are right. The part I didn't really make clear is that we only serve on the single external port. Were we to use multiple, then yes, we could have 64k * 64k per IP pair.
If that is actually the case, the document gets its myth correction wrong (by a lot) :)
Can anyone clarify this?