Re: [lwip-users] Reconnect Issue on TCP

[Simon Goldschmidt]

Am 16.09.2010 um 16:34 schrieb Kieran Mansley <address@hidden>:

> On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 07:08 -0700, farid mahini wrote:
>> repeat the above process again to re-listen. However the bind call 
>> fails.
> 
> I would guess that the address is still in use.
That's exactly the problem: the bind call fails while there are TCP connections 
left in TI
ME_WAIT state, typically 3 minutes after the call to close. You can try to use 
SO_REUSEADDR, but just leaving the listening socket open is probably the best 
you can do.

Simon