Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] two servers listening on same port?

[Nelson, E. - 2 <eri...@ba...>]

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From: Kim Gräsman [mailto:kim...@gm...] 
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 12:27 PM
To: C++ Networking Library Developers Mailing List
Subject: Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] two servers listening on same port?

Hi guys,

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 17:58, Nelson, Erik - 2
<eri...@ba...> wrote:
>
>>Okay, can you give more details? What compiler, which OS,
>>what are the exact arguments you're providing? Did you
>>compile the example with bjam, what version of Boost are you using?
>
>>It's going to be really hard to help if you can't give us more to look
> at. ;)
>
> I compiled with MSVC 2008 on Windows XP, using arguments of "localhost"
> and "3000".  I'm using boost 1.42, not using bjam, just added the
> hello_world_server.cpp to my visual studio project.

>I wonder if SO_REUSEADDR has anything to do with it...
>http://www.unixguide.net/network/socketfaq/4.5.shtml

I think you might be right...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740621%28VS.85%29.aspx

looks like maybe there should be no SO_REUSADDR (or maybe there should be a SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE) as SO_REUSADDR causes indeterminate behavior

Erik