#! perl -slw use strict; use IO::Socket; my $lsn = IO::Socket::INET->new( Listen => 1, LocalPort => $ARGV[0] ) or die $^E; while( my $client = $lsn->accept ) { close $client; } #### C:\test>lsn 1025 Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted at C:\test\lsn.pl line 5.