Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:19:15 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: manual page review: connect(2) EAGAIN error Message-ID: <20010119101915.B16961@comp.leeds.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200101181543.KAA29005@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20010118113453.A25127@comp.leeds.ac.uk> <200101181543.KAA29005@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > [EAGAIN] is equivalent to the traditional BSD [EWOULDBLOCK], and might > be used for connects in non-blocking mode. oops, I forgot that this is for non-blocking sockets... +.It Bq Er EAGAIN +A resource was temporarily unavailable when connecting a socket in +non-blocking mode. +This could indicate there are no port numbers available for use when a port +number is being chosen automatically. +Increasing the +.Va net.inet.ip.portrange.last +.Xr sysctl 8 +variable (which defaults to 5000) may help this problem. Any better? -- Ben Smithurst / csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk / ben@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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