I submitted this question to boost-users Friday but it occurred to me that it should have been posted here. Apologies if I've erred. <original> I created a server something like this: handle_accept(){ do_the_right_thing(); } Class Foo { socket_acceptor acceptor_; Public: Foo(demuxer& d) : acceptor_( d, ipv4::tcp::endpoint(2525)){} Example(demuxer& d) { stream_socket* p = new stream_socket(d); acceptor_.async_accept(p, handle_accept); } } Everything works fine except when I (1) connect a client; (2) ^C the server; (3) try to restart the server - which, as expected, yields "Address already in use". Mumbling something about defaulting modern socket libraries to SO_REUSEADDR, I started trying to figure out where to call set_option(stream_socket::reuse_address(true)) - and can't work it out. I've set_option() on sockets and the acceptor but can't make the acceptor reuse the address as long as the connection that was established is still in TIME_WAIT. Do you have an example that shows how this can be done? </original> Regards, Dick Bridges