# maximum ssh connections limit in ansible

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/maximum-ssh-connections-limit-in-ansible/18947>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [August 5, 2015, 5:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/maximum-ssh-connections-limit-in-ansible/18947 "2015-08-05T05:55:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![anandkumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@anandkumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anandkumar)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 5:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/maximum-ssh-connections-limit-in-ansible/18947/1 "2015-08-05T05:55:29Z")

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I want to connect more no of connections from one node to multiple hosts.So is there any limit of ssh connections ? and what is the maximum no of ssh connections from one node to multiple hosts?  
If it exists how to increase maximum no of connections and any dependency from ufw?

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/maximum-ssh-connections-limit-in-ansible/18947/2 "2015-08-05T14:04:43Z")

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connections will be limited by resources (cpu, ram, network  
bandwidth), there is no setting on the clients side limiting  
connections. Since ansible should only be opening one connection per  
target server, there should be no need to adjust the number of  
connections on the target.