On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Rhys Feingold wrote:

> However, then I run up against the bind failure during TIME_WAIT problem,
> and so I call setsockopt with SO_REUSEADDR just before the call to bind() in
> bindlocal. This does not seem to work. Any pointers ?

I don't think there is an easy fix or work-around. TIME_WAIT is there for a
reason.

I would recommend that you make the code allow a port range, so that it can
try another port when this happens. And you need to make your code deal with
this (address already in use) failure and retry later.

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