yenjet wrote:
> I'm wondering what is the fastest way to close a network port instead what
> I'm doing is to reboot the machine?
>
> Recently, I have kill up a process which is running half way. And I get
> "port already opened" error when I tried to start the same process again.
> And I'm sure the process and all the child process alrady been killed. Is
> there anyway for me to close the network port without reboot the machine ?
You cannot generally reuse a TCP port while there might be outstanding
packets destined for it (i.e. while there are connections in the
TIME_WAIT state). This is intentional; you just have to wait for it to
time out.
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