On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Robert Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wait—let me get this straight. Even if you close a socket, you've > still consumed a port number, and there's no way to free the port > numbers for re-use? No, not at all. If the socket has been closed long enough, the kernel will free the port number, and it can be reallocated. I was simply speculating that the OP was opening ports faster than he was closing them, but apparently not. > How does SO_REUSEADDR/setReuseAddress(boolean) play into this? Normally the kernel waits a while after the socket is closed before the port can be reused, so that any incoming packets from the remote socket can be discarded. SO_REUSEADDR suppresses this delay, at a risk of accepting a packet from a previous connection to the same host. -- GMail doesn't have rotating .sigs, but you can see mine at http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/signatures -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en.
