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Fixed consistency w/ number of ports
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articles/load-balancer/load-balancer-outbound-connections.md

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If a port is used for inbound connections, it has a **listener** for inbound connection requests on that port. That port can't be used for outbound connections. To establish an outbound connection, an **ephemeral port** is used to provide the destination with a port on which to communicate and maintain a distinct traffic flow. When these ephemeral ports are used for SNAT, they're called **SNAT ports**.
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By definition, every IP address has 65,535 ports. Each port can either be used for inbound or outbound connections for TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol). When a public IP address is added as a frontend IP to a load balancer, 64,000 ports are eligible for SNAT. While all public IPs that are added as frontend IPs can be allocated, frontend IPs are consumed one at a time. For example, if two backend instances are allocated 64k ports each, with access to 2 frontend IPs, both backend instances will consume ports from the first frontend IP until all 64k ports have been exhausted.
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By definition, every IP address has 65,535 ports. Each port can either be used for inbound or outbound connections for TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol). When a public IP address is added as a frontend IP to a load balancer, 64,000 ports are eligible for SNAT. While all public IPs that are added as frontend IPs can be allocated, frontend IPs are consumed one at a time. For example, if two backend instances are allocated 64,000 ports each, with access to 2 frontend IPs, both backend instances will consume ports from the first frontend IP until all 64,000 ports have been exhausted.
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A port used for a load balancing or inbound NAT rule consumes eight ports from the 64,000 ports. This usage reduces the number of ports eligible for SNAT. If a load-balancing or inbound NAT rule is in the same range of eight as another, it doesn't use extra ports.
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