[EdwardDiego]

Cheers for the info! I guess that's where I got the wrong idea from - attempting to stress test one machine from another machine, I'd always hit that limit, but now I understand why.

[turbojerry → EdwardDiego]

Try Tsung for stress testing, it can use multiple IPs and therefore you can open up as many connections as you like -

http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/