Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 18:52:20 -0700 From: Loganathan Ramasamy <Loganathan.Ramasamy@oracle.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: why SO_REUSEADDR option ? Message-ID: <3988D054.67921194@oracle.com>
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In the Richard stevens "Unix Network Programming" , it is mentioned that one of the scenarios in which SO_REUSEADDR used is "To bind the same port number with different IP aliases of the host system to different endpoints" I didn't quite get the reason why SO_REUSEADDR has to be used in this scenario. If i don't use why will i get the error "address already in use" , since Source IP address in a 5 tuple connection is going to be different for different endpoints. ie why bind(IP1,P1) and bind (IP2,P1) should give error if i don't use SO_REUSEADDR ?? So can somebody explain it . Thanks loganathan.R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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