Re: (teststabilization) RFR: 8231506: Fix some instabilities in a few networking tests

[Alan Bateman]

On 30/09/2019 21:55, mark sheppard wrote:
Hi Daniel,
   looks like an  interesting saga … will give that twirl on my dinky 
laptop

   wrt  why MulticastSocket  sets SO_REUSEADDR I reckon Chris or Alan 
are the authority on that.
There may be several applications that need to bind to the same port and 
join the group so SO_REUSEADDR is needed. AFAIK, MulticastSocket has 
enabled this since JDK 1.0.

-Alan