On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:45:29PM -0700, Vijay Mani wrote:
> I did a netstat -abn, and noticed that upto 127.0.0.1:5000 were used,
> and 5000 is the default maximum for ephemeral ports in windows.
> And given that the timewait before these ports are released is 4
> minutes. I think that's what is causing my problems.

Makes sense. If you can convince the HTTP server to enable persistent
connections then you avoid this problem altogether.

> Do you have any recommendations on sniffers that have loopback support
> for windows?

Sounds like you have probably hit on the answer already. Wireshark is
the standard answer here, except that I'm not convinced that it can handle
the loopback port.

>>> Dan

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