Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] out of port numbers

[Andrej van der Zee <andrejvanderzee@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> Every system reuses port numbers. But only after waiting "enough time" for the old connection to be removed from the connection table. Then there is the TIME_WAIT state in which the port can not be reused.
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Unless tcp_tw_recycle or tcp_tw_reuse is enabled as it seems in my
case, because in my tcpdump client port numbers are reused even after
a few seconds.

Cheers,
Andrej