TCP: how to completely close a listening socket

[jody]

Hi

I have made a simple TCP Server application,
in the usual way (socket(), bind(), listen(), accept()).
After the transactions are done, i terminate the
server nicely:

shutdown(iSock, SHUT_RDWR);
close(iSock);

But when i want to start the application again immediately,
i cannot use the same port number to bind my listening port to -
i get the error corresponding to "Address already in use".
Only about a minute after i stopped the application, the port
is free again.

Does anybody know how a listening port can be made available
again immediately? Is this possible at all?

Thank you
Jody

[jody]

I have found the solution:
call

int reuse = 1;
setsockopt(iSock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &reuse, sizeof(int));

before calling bind() in the creation of the server socket.

Jody