tcp_server example not able to reconnect the server after disconnect

[blippy]

Did you try the PR I linked to? I didn't have any problems with it, but my use case may be different.

Please provide the link, as it's not on this thread.

[meowsqueak]

Did you try the PR I linked to? I didn't have any problems with it, but my use case may be different.

Please provide the link, as it's not on this thread.

It is, but here it is again anyway

https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/pull/3597

[blippy]

OK. Thanks. I'll give it a go when I have a spare ESP. All of mine are currently in-service.

[blippy]

OK, I've had a chance to try the proposed patch (after much fiddling around with updates).

My conclusion: it fixes the big problem everyone has been having, but still contains a bug.

The bug is this: if two clients try to connect at the same time, then the second one will block (which I think is OK, that's not the problem). However, when the first one disconnects, the second one will receive a "connection reset by peer".

The problem as I see it is that

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close(listen_sock)

is in the wrong place. You really ought not to put it there! It closes the listening socket on disconnecting the first client, which means that anything that was connected to it at the time will be disconnected.

The code I presented in my previous post fixes that issue. (It may contain other problems, though.)

[meowsqueak]

Fair enough - my workaround was a consolidation of other comments to support a single client and multiple reconnections. Two unique non-concurrent clients will need a different solution.

[blippy]

I think it's certainly OK to only service one connection at a time whilst keeping the others in a blocked state. Servicing multiple connections would require a much more elaborate solution, which would be too complex for the example.