Re: [lwip-users] Bind port problem

[Atte Kojo]

On Thursday 09 March 2006 16:55, Etienne Lanoy wrote:
> tcp_bind(global_pcb, IP_ADDR_ANY, port_configuration);
> global_pcb = tcp_listen(global_pcb);
> tcp_accept(global_pcb, config_server_ip_accept);
>
> The problem is when I execute this code to change the port binded, after
> it, I can connect to my product with the
> old and the new port. The old port isn't unbind.
>

There is an error here in your code. The trick is to understand what 
tcp_listen() actually does. It creates a _new_ connection every time a new 
connection is opened. When making a tcp server, one pcb is created for the 
server that listens for new connections, then tcp_listen() is used to create 
the actual client connections that arrive to the server. The listening socket 
is actually never opened or used in any other way. It just, well, listens. 
Along these lines:

1. Create a listening pcb, server_pcb in this example, with tcp_new()
2. Bind it to a local port
3. Listen to the pcb with tcp_listen(). Assign the return value of 
tcp_listen() to a new descriptor, say conn_pcb.
*** At this point you have two allocated pcbs. The listening pcb server_pcb 
and the newly opened connection conn_pcb. ***
4. Accept the new connection (conn_pcb) with tcp_accept().
5. Do stuff with the conn_pcb connection.
6. Close conn_pcb with tcp_close()
7. Repeat from step 3.

The whole server is closed, if necessary, by closing the server_pcb with 
tcp_close().

What your code does now is that it loses the pointer to the listening pcb 
every time a new connection is opened, creating a memory leak. And then the 
open connection becomes the new listening pcb. Which again gets lost and so 
on.

> How can change the port of my embedded server without have old and new
> port connection capabilities ?

To reiterate, in your situation you must only listen to the global_pcb and 
assing the return value of tcp_listen() to some other pcb pointer and then 
close that pointer after the client connection is closed. Then when you 
re-bind the global_pcb, things should work as intended.

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Atte Kojo
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