Re: multiple connections to ORPort from one IP address

[Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

     On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 13:19:05 -0700 coderman <coderman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ...
>> What would a tor process making connections from behind a NAT server
>> have to do with whether there were only one connection or were multiple
>> connections?
>
>multiple clients (multiple Tor instances) behind the same NAT at a
>school, for example.  or multiple clients someone is testing behind
>their DSL router.  etc, etc.

     Oh, of course.  I guess I'm not really awake yet.  Thanks.  I didn't
think about schools, though, because most just assign unique, real IP
addresses from their class A or B zones.
>
>i'm assuming you are excluding TIME_WAIT and other expiring socket states...
>
     Yes.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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