Re: Feature Request: Limiting Connections

Date: July 2, 2010

Source: BitcoinTalk Forum

URL: https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/165/

I reduced max outbound connections from 15 to 8 in RC4.

15 was way more than we needed for redundancy. 8 is still plenty of redundancy.

As the nodes upgrade to this version, this will cut in half the number of connections that inbound accepting nodes get.

If anyone wants more than 8 connections, they can open port 8333 on their firewall.