philippe landau wluheuserlandorg p2p applications use lot connections often surpassing limits home equippment like modems routers resulting frequent reboots making internet connection unstable prevalent swiss cable modem example handle 400 connections common default settings filesharing apps around 800 connections use one app bittorrent one kaded2k 1600 monitor number active connections used applications tcp udp set limits properly open halfopen dont know difference also limit set opensuse 103 kind regards philippe fri 08 aug 2008 025436 0100 opensuse monitoring number connections