See SO_REUSEADDR. Barney Wolff On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 07:41:42AM -0600, Alex Rousskov wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The following program binds *:1000 to a socket, and then tries to > > bind 200.47.36.254:1000 to another socket, the error i gets is > > "Address already in use". Why? > > *:1000 includes 200.47.36.254:1000 by definition of bind(2). Binding > two sockets to one address (200.47.36.254:1000 in your case) cannot be > allowed because it is unclear which of the two sockets should recieve > packets destined to 200.47.36.254:1000. There may be other reasons. > > Alex. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
