[PD] netserver port availability

[Martin Peach]

Pall Thayer wrote:
> There's nothing you can do about a hung port short of rebooting the 
> machine. This has always been a problem with the netserver and 
> flashserver objects (maybe someone should look into it). I avoid using 
> netserver because of this and instead use netsend/netreceive to a perl 
> server that mediates. I never have the problem of hanging ports with perl.

How about having a few different ports and using another if one is not 
available? Since the TCP/IP stack is still working (it just thinks the 
port is still in use) there is nothing to stop you using another one.

Martin