[erlang-questions] TCP Kernel bug/feature

[Tony Finch]

On Thu, 17 May 2007, Tom Samplonius wrote:
>
>   I think this is way it is supposed to work.  A socket is a unique pair
> of source and destination ports.  You run a server on 12345, and then
> connect from 12345 to 12345.  So that is a legal socket.  This should
> work this way on most OSes.

No, he is connecting from an ephemeral port not from 12345.

Tony.
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