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Hey,

Is the number of TCP or UDP sockets limited ? I seem to remember reading about that but maybe that was a bad dream I can't seem to find such info now.

Thanks,

Danny

There is a parameter that you can set up to 4 according to the nodemcu manual.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. The ESP8266 SDK Programming Guide explains some of the calls, and some experimenting shows it's set to 5 by default, and can be pushed to 15.



espconn_tcp_get_max_con -> 5
Set max to 8 -> 0, max 8
Set max to 9 -> 0, max 9
Set max to 10 -> 0, max 10
Set max to 11 -> 0, max 11
Set max to 12 -> 0, max 12
Set max to 13 -> 0, max 13
Set max to 14 -> 0, max 14
Set max to 15 -> 0, max 15
Set max to 16 -> -12, max 15

A very old thread, but it seems appropriate to add this here...

I've been playing around with using espconn_tcp_set_max_con() and the above testing code does work as shown; however, when I keep incoming connections open on a web server app, the 5th connection halts the flow (when espconn_tcp_set_max_con is set to 15). As expected, about two minutes later it did pop into ClientContext::_s_error with a ERR_CONN value. Even after this, it would not permit a new connection.