http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2011-October/013966.html
> I am using Live555 to run an RTSP server on an embedded system, and I would like to restart the server programmatically. However, the current RTSPServer implementation does not allow the same port to be re-used if the socket is in a TIME_WAIT state. > > I had a look around and saw a previous thread regarding this issue (http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2011-July/013664.html). Actually, this thread starts at http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2011-July/013648.html I suggest reading this entire thread to better understand the issues involved. > For debugging it is not too difficult to reboot my system or wait for the TIME_WAIT state to end, but for restarting programmatically it would be nice if there were an option to tell the RTSPServer class that I want it to reuse the same port even if there is a socket on that port in the TIME_WAIT state. > > I can obviously change the code, and have done so, but thought I would throw my vote in for allowing this behavior by design. If you would like a patch for the changes I made (basically adding a default parameter ‘Boolean allowPortReuse = false’ to the relevant RTSPServer functions), I would be happy to send one. I don't want to add a runtime parameter for this - in part because there are already three default parameters to "RTSPClient::createNew()", and I'd rather not add another one. (Also, I don't want to make it too easy for people to disable the 'port reuse' check unless (like you) they know what they doing - otherwise we might actually end up with people trying to have more than one server running on the same port at the same time.) What I can do, however, is add a #ifndef/#endif around the "NoReuse dummy;" statement on line 156 of "RTSPServer.cpp" - i.e., making it: #ifndef ALLOW_RTSP_SERVER_PORT_REUSE NoReuse dummy; #endif Then, you can add -D ALLOW_RTSP_SERVER_PORT_REUSE=1 to the "COMPILE_OPTS =" line of your "config." file. I hope that will work for you...