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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: manual page review: connect(2) EAGAIN error
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<<On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:19:15 +0000, Ben Smithurst <csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk> said:

> +.It Bq Er EAGAIN
> +A resource was temporarily unavailable when connecting a socket in
> +non-blocking mode.
> +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
> +.Xr sysctl 8
> +variable (which defaults to 5000) may help this problem.

> Any better?

No -- if the code actually implements that, it's wrong.

-GAWollman



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