Hello All, I have one problem with server socket.I am running concurrent tcp server using threads and when the client closes it's connection , The server socket is still in the ESTABLISHED state. onece i close the socket on client side , I could not open the socket on client side again with the same port number. Thanks in advance Regards Rakesh -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/