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Re:The Internet Is Cool. Thank You, TCP by mrlonglong on Saturday November 22, 2025 @05:07PM (#46018697)
Why, just why, does ipv6 still uses 16 bit port addresses? Why didn't they think about larger port addresses?

That means we can only have up to 65,534 port addresses per IP address.

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