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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:34:54 +0000
From:      Ben Smithurst <csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk>
To:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   manual page review: connect(2) EAGAIN error
Message-ID:  <20010118113453.A25127@comp.leeds.ac.uk>

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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


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