Question

I am working on a console server app that listens on a port for a incoming connections. Every time I restart the console app, it has a pending connection queue which is causing the console server app to crash.

Is there a way to remove all pending connections in the queue before accepting new connections ?

Answer 1

Your server app needs to set SO_REUSEADDR socket option:

server_socket.SetSocketOption( SocketOptionLevel.Socket,
    SocketOptionName.ReuseAddress, true );

to be able to bind the listening port after restart.