21 Oct 15 23:10, I wrote to you:

 ml> you cannot make the second line... the socket handle changes every time
 ml> there's a new connection... the socket handle is not the same as the
 ml> port... there's a new socket handle created for each connection no matter
 ml> what port the connection is on... i don't have any active connections at
 ml> the moment that i can show you what i'm talking about...

ahh... i finally got a couple of connections going so here's an example...

socket   type   foreign   local     foreign         state
                 port      port       host
======  ======  =======  ======  ===============  ===========
   819  stream   56959       80     66.249.69.61  established
   820  stream   34241       80     66.249.69.78  established
   841  stream   50595       80     66.249.69.61  established
   850  stream   43794       80     66.249.69.61  established
   872  stream    2446       80   89.123.163.179  established
   893  stream   43490       80   68.180.228.227  established

note the socket numbers (1st column) are all for my local port 80 (4th
column)... when my socket numbers reach the largest value, 65535 IIRC, they
will start over again...

one can generally see these values via a tool called netstat... it has
different parameters on different operating systems... the above was taken
from my main OS/2 system using "netstat -s"... i know that it is
different on winwhatever systems...

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