[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#10958) civserver does not serve

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10958 >

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Jason Short wrote:

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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10958 >
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> > [chrisk - Tue Nov 09 22:48:38 2004]:
> >
> >
> > CVS 09 NOV 2004 S2 GTK2
> >
> > I've managed to compile civserver on a fairly old box with a fairly old
> > Linux system. I get this error message, but can play on the server:
> >
> > 1: setsockopt failed: No such device
> > 2: Now accepting new client connections.
> >
> > For introductory help, type 'help'.
> > >
> >
> > IP v4/v6 issue?
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> Freeciv doesn't natively support IPV6, so no.  I guess setsocketopt is
> just being asked to do something it can't.  Maybe we could have a
> configure check for it, if we knew what "it" was.

IIRC we use setsockopt to set the NOLINGER (immediatly drop open ports
after they are closed) and NDELAY (read/write immediatly, without
waiting for the entire op to finish, which can take minutes for people
with bad network connections) options.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa