On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 09:44:30PM +0800, Sun Paul wrote: > Hi > > we have an SCTP application running in JAVA. and we found that there > is a problem when we as a client trying to connect to a remote IP > address. > > If the remote IP address is not accessible, our application will keep > retrying to connect using a self-defined local port address, says > 51001, > > We found that after sometimes, says 2 hrs, this port 51001 is never > able to bind to us again. even we tried to restart the application. > Sounds like you have another application that inadvertently bound to that port. Its not a privlidged port, nor is it well known, so it seems plausible that another application would eventually bind to it. Thats not a bug, just the way ip works. run netstat -anp | grep 51001 And see what application is holding the port. Neil > Is there anyone know how we can resolve this? > > -RBK > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html