[erlang-questions] eaddrinuse on connect ?

[Bengt Kleberg]

On 2006-12-09 17:53, Mickaël Rémond wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When a lot, of outgoing connections are open, I can sometimes see 
> eaddrinuse error on outgoing TCP connect.
> As the error is obvious for binding/listening to a local socket, I was 
> wondering why this error could occur and how to avoid it.

i think that, for TCP, you need a socket on the sending computer, too. 
for ack/nack, flow control, etc.


> Can using the reuseaddr parameter help in this situation ?

yes, it should allow you to open the outgoing socket. perhaps you would 
get into trouble if the previous remote computer is still sending things 
back to your local/sending computer. but the sequence number should 
protect you from that... i think it will be ok.


bengt
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