[Freeciv-Dev] Re: packet_conn_ping_info and connections

[Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:08:01PM +0200, Andreas R?sdal wrote:
> 
> Why should there be a limit to the number of connections? Also, why should
> there be a limit to the number of players?

having an unlimited number of connections is probably a security risk.

There are a limited number of players because of the way that data is
stored. Mainly because there are 32 bits in a 4-byte integer. I suspect
you'd need to change a thousand lines of code to make the limit larger.

-mike