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From: heller@b11.ingr.com (Anne Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: UDP bind question
Keywords: UDP, bind
Message-ID: <7391@b11.ingr.com>
Date: 7 Feb 90 00:26:50 GMT
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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I have a question regarding binding to ports in UDP.  Is it generally 
acceptable to allow binding more than once to a given port?  (I know about the 
SO_REUSEADDR option in sockets, but we have a STREAMS implementation
which complies with the AT&T Transport Provider Interface (TPI) standard,
so not everyone is accessing UDP through sockets.)

I'm sorry if this is a naive question, but I did not find anything addressing
this issue in RFC768 (User Datagram Protocol) or in the RFC1122
(Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers).

Thanks,
Anne A. Heller	
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