Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!pasteur!agate!ig!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!mcvax!prlb2!kulcs!dannyb From: dannyb@kulcs.uucp (Danny Backx) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: PC-NFS Toolkit bug? Need help Message-ID: <117@icarus.kulcs.uucp> Date: 22 Jun 88 07:51:35 GMT References: <285@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Reply-To: dannyb@kulcs.UUCP (Danny Backx) Organization: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Dept. Computer Science Lines: 5 2049 is the port used by NFS. This means that on all machines running NFS servers, you can't get that port. I am working with SunOS and BSD, in which you have to do the bind system call to attach your socket to a port number. If that port number is already in use, the bind fails, and errno=EADDRINUSE.