On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 05:37:53PM +0200, Andrew Rucker Jones wrote: > Checking the source address, destination address, source port, and > destination port will guaruntee that the connection is unique. TCP (and > UDP, i think) include wait mechanisms that disallow reuse of an > ephemeral source port too soon after being used. So, if You poll quickly > enough (every second is plenty fast), You will never run into this problem. Servers use the SO_REUSEADDR option and that lets them re-bind to the same port even though there are connections in TIME_WAIT state. Regards, Mohit Kalra "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." -SH -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
