Hello all I ask your wisdom to help me on a problem about Socket. I have a peer 2 peer tv application that builts a streaming server on my localhost: my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => 'localhost', PeerPort => '8902', Type => SOCK_STREAM, Proto => 'tcp', Reuse => 1); I want to keep this connection alive also when I change the channel. The streaming remains in the same socket. With the following code both programs crash: 
while(1){
        while(sysread($sock, $content, 512)){
            . . . #some stuff
        }
        $sock->close();
        $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new (PeerAddr => 'localhost', PeerPo
+rt => '8902', Type => SOCK_STREAM, Proto => 'tcp', Reuse        => 1,
+ KeepAlive => 1, );
        die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock;
        
        . . .
}

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I hope I was clear enough. Thanks for any help

In reply to Socket Keep Alive by canadaone

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