[PD] tcpserver crashes on the 34th client connection

[Martin Peach]

On 2013-05-20 08:19, Antoine Villeret wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> For now, I increase the MAX_CONNECT value and I also make each client
> disconnecting after they receive expected data, and they connect again
> if needed.
>
> But I experience another issue.
> If Pd crashes for any reason, the socket stay in a TIME_WAIT state and
> if Pd restarts asap, the port may not be available and thus tcpserver
> can't bind to it.
> I have to wait until the end of TIME-OUT before restarting Pd.
> I found a solution [1] (restart network service) to release the socket,
> so that tcpserver can bind to the same port again.
> But it could be good to handle this inside Pd isn't it ?
>
> So I guess two ways :
> 1- according to WMR in [1], we can set SO_REUSEADDR via setsockopt(2),
> but I don't know if this possible without lots of code rewriting...

[mrpeach/tcpserver] already does this. If the socket is in some other 
state than TIME_WAIT it will still block.
There is more than one version of [tcpserver] around. In Pd-extended 
there is [net/tcpserver], [iemnet/tcpserver] and [mrpeach/tcpserver].


> 2- tcpserver could also have a [bind <port_number>( message to select
> the port to bind to and send out error through its right outlet to
> notice if port is available or not, so that we can try to bind again
> until a port is available.

Yes, I could add that.

Martin