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how to work around limitation of 10 users on XP?

Vladimir Petter <vlad...@hotmail.com>

Cari,

Thanks for your answer.
I know that. I am looking for possibility to "work-around" this limitation
without making customer upgrade to Server.
Any suggestions?

Vladimir.

"Cari MS-MVP" <Newsgrou...@coribright.comn> wrote in message

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> The limitation is in place because you have a workstation operating system
> and not a server operating system.  For unlimited connections, use either
> one of the (now discotninued) Windows 2000 Server family or the new
Windows
> 2003 Server family.

> Cari
> www.coribright.com

> "Vladimir Petter" <vlad...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uTbTPg0vDHA.684@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > Dear All,

> > May be somebody knows if there is a product that may be addressing
> following
> > issue:

> >     - On Windows 2000 Professional/XP Professional IIS (version 6.0) is
> > limited by 10 simultaneous TCP connections.
> > If 11'th connection comes it going to get HTTP error.
> >     - IE uses HTTP 1.1 and Keep-Alive. If IE client made a connection to
> IIS
> > (and keep-alive is on) then IE will keep this connection
> > up to ~30 sec (even if does not have any requests to send).
> >     - Each IE client makes up to 2 connections to the IIS and keeps them
> in
> > cash.

> >     So 10 simultaneous IE clients will eat up to 10 connections and
11'th
> > user may get an error. This becomes a limitation for my WEB application.

> > What I am looking for is a Proxy that would not have limitation on
number
> of
> > incoming TCP connections (IE to Proxy), but would be aware of IIS
> limitation
> > (10 connections on Professional platform) and put client's request on
hold
> > until IIS connection would become available.

> > I've already considered possibility of turning off keep-alive on the
> server
> > side and now interested only in discussion of the option described above
> > (Proxy).

> > Regards,
> > Vladimir.