netstat can show all open ports. Does it do trial and error on all port
numbers? Or does the OS know and MS has not published how to get the
information?
There are possibilities to retrieve windows internal informations, but they
are out of scope of a socket component.
The IP Helper API has fun
Hello,
>Do you really need to determine free local port? By what you wrote it
>doesn't seem you need that.
Yes.
>You need a free local port if you are making a server type of
>application, not a client application.
I am sorry, that is not correct. It is a requirement of the protocol that
the po
Do you really need to determine free local port? By what you wrote it
doesn't seem you need that.
You need a free local port if you are making a server type of
application, not a client application.
If you connect to remote server (then you are making a client
application) you connect to whatever
How can I determine if a local port number is in use?
Trial and error.
If I cannot determine it before calling connect, how do I catch the error
that the port is in use?
Exception handler.
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