I would like to understand the below statementS from this documentation.
Part 1:
The network component continues to perform a peer search if its number of peers is less than the minimum connectivity. The network component rejects peering attempts if its number of peers is equal to or greater than the maximum connectivity.
Part 2:
Even if maximum peer connections is reached, a network service should still accept and respond to a reasonable number of connections (for the purposes of other node topology build outs, etc.)
Question:
The statements in part 1 and part 2 - contradict with each other. Is the documentation wrong?
If not, both are valid... then, under what circumstances each of them is valid over the other?
As per part 1:
network component rejects peering attempts if its number of peers is equal to or greater than the maximum connectivity
And as per part 2:
network service should still accept and respond to a reasonable number of connections
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