- * Make sure that we don't have too many active connections. If we
- * have, something must be dropped.
+ * Make sure that we don't have too many active connections. If we have,
+ * something must be dropped. It's not clear what will happen if we allow
+ * "too many" connections, but when dealing with network-facing software,
+ * we have to code defensively. Here we do that by imposing hard limits.