From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jan 18 3:37: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from csunb0.leeds.ac.uk (csunb0.leeds.ac.uk [129.11.144.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84DCE37B6A3 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 03:36:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from cslin.leeds.ac.uk (csunc0.leeds.ac.uk [129.11.144.3]) by csunb0.leeds.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA17244 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:34:54 GMT Received: from cslin009.leeds.ac.uk (cslin009 [129.11.146.9]) by cslin.leeds.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/) with ESMTP id LAA17040 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:34:54 GMT Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:34:54 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: manual page review: connect(2) EAGAIN error Message-ID: <20010118113453.A25127@comp.leeds.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Does this look reasonable to people? Based on http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24125 --- connect.2 2000/11/22 16:01:11 1.14 +++ connect.2 2001/01/18 11:28:14 @@ -142,6 +142,13 @@ The socket is non-blocking and a previous connection attempt has not yet been completed. +.It Bq Er EAGAIN +A resource was temporarily unavailable. +This could indicate there are no port numbers available for use when a port +number is being chosen automatically. +Increasing the +.Va net.inet.ip.portrange.last +(which defaults to 5000) may help this problem. .El .Pp The following errors are specific to connecting names in the UNIX domain. -- Ben Smithurst / csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk / ben@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message