Those who forget history are doomed to re-implement it, wrongly.

SO_REUSEADDR was implemented in 4.2BSD so that a server could restart without 
waiting for the various FIN_WAIT timeouts to happen.

:)

        /r$

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Akamai Technologies, Cambridge, MA
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