Re: Address already in use problem

[Marcelo Ricardo Leitner]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:15:43PM +0800, Sun Paul wrote:
> Hi
> 
> we are using redhat 2.6.32-642.4.2.el6.x86_64
> 
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:04 PM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
> <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 09:44:30PM +0800, Sun Paul wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> we have an SCTP application running in JAVA. and we found that there
> >> is a problem when we as a client trying to connect to a remote IP
> >> address.
> >>
> >> If the remote IP address is not accessible, our application will keep
> >> retrying to connect using a self-defined local port address, says
> >> 51001,
> >>
> >> We found that after sometimes, says 2 hrs, this port 51001 is never
> >> able to bind to us again. even we tried to restart the application.
> >>
> >> Is there anyone know how we can resolve this?
> >
> > Which kernel are you using? Depending on it, that may be fixed by a
> > recent patchset from Xin Long, 'sctp: fix the transmit err process'
> > patchset more exactly.
> >
> >   Marcelo

Ah no, then that's another thing. If you cannot test/use an upstream
kernel, then I'd recommend you to open a support case/bug with them.

Thanks,
Marcelo