What is the meaning of SO_REUSEADDR (setsockopt option) – Linux? [duplicate]

TCP’s primary design goal is to allow reliable data communication in the face of packet loss, packet reordering, and — key, here — packet duplication. It’s fairly obvious how a TCP/IP network stack deals with all this while the connection is up, but there’s an edge case that happens just after the connection closes. What … Read more

How do I assign a port mapping to an existing Docker container?

I’m also interested in this problem. As @Thasmo mentioned, port forwardings can be specified ONLY with docker run (and docker create) command. Other commands, docker start does not have -p option and docker port only displays current forwardings. To add port forwardings, I always follow these steps, stop running container docker stop test01 commit the … Read more

Sockets: Discover port availability using Java

This is the implementation coming from the Apache camel project: /** * Checks to see if a specific port is available. * * @param port the port to check for availability */ public static boolean available(int port) { if (port < MIN_PORT_NUMBER || port > MAX_PORT_NUMBER) { throw new IllegalArgumentException(“Invalid start port: ” + port); … Read more

How do multiple clients connect simultaneously to one port, say 80, on a server? [duplicate]

First off, a “port” is just a number. All a “connection to a port” really represents is a packet which has that number specified in its “destination port” header field. Now, there are two answers to your question, one for stateful protocols and one for stateless protocols. For a stateless protocol (ie UDP), there is … Read more

What is the theoretical maximum number of open TCP connections that a modern Linux box can have

A single listening port can accept more than one connection simultaneously. There is a ’64K’ limit that is often cited, but that is per client per server port, and needs clarifying. Each TCP/IP packet has basically four fields for addressing. These are: source_ip source_port destination_ip destination_port <—– client ——> <——— server ————> Inside the TCP … Read more