On 2013-04-30, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've recently noticed that when using the FreeBSD TCP stack, the
> connect() system call ignores the SO_REUSEADDRESS setting and returns
> EADDRINUSE when attempting to connect a TCP socket if a connection
> with the same (SrcIP,SrcPort,DstIP,DstPort) tuple is still hanging
> around in the TIME_WAIT state.
It appears that the work-around for this is to set the SO_LINGER
option with a timeout of 0 before calling close(). That reportedly
sends a RST instead of a FIN, and the socket doesn't hang around in
the TIME_WAIT state...
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