[Techtalk] Clearing a port

[Michelle Konzack]

Maybe you should start a NEW THREAD instead of hijacking an existing one?

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    24V Electronic Engineer
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant



Am 2008-07-03 10:42:18, schrieb B Seeger:
> Hi, 
> 
> I have a client/server app running on Debian Linux (4.0). If the server
> program is killed before the client is, the port they are talking on is
> bound on the server's machine until some timeout occurs. 
> 
> I was wondering if there was a way to "reset" the port.  I don't want to
> lower the time out, but I'd like a way to tell the machine to clear that
> port...
> 
> -Bethany
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