kern/80322: TCP socket support broken on a busy port

[Matthew D. Fuller]

The following reply was made to PR kern/80322; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd at over-yonder.net>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/80322: TCP socket support broken on a busy port
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:21:28 -0500

 On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 03:50:22PM +0000 I heard the voice of
 Pawel Malachowski, and lo! it spake thus:
 >  
 >  Hm, I saw behaviour like this on 4.8 machine running some shoutcast
 >  server; after killing radio process it was unable to bind to port
 >  as if it was already open (nothing was listening on it) but after a
 >  minute or so it was able to bind again. I've never investigated
 >  this.
 
 This is where the SO_REUSEADDR setsockopt() comes into play.
 
 
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