Mar 17, 2012, 03:22 PM
OmegaZero_Alpha Wrote:Also keep in mind that routers don't keep every connection in its DHCP table, only those that are connected to the internal network.Makes sense, but last stupid question:
Isn't there a TCP connection table with timeouts that it does keep track of since most home routers are doing NAT? So it has to keep track of the TCP connection (and where its going, and if I remember right what specific Socket its related to on the destination PC), and the timeout for it. Which means if there are 1024 "active" TCP connections on the network (or 512 for really old routers) and the timeout for them hasn't been reached to knock them off the table, wouldn't the next one (depending again on the age, table size, and intelligence of the router) cause the thing to twitch and die?