So, we have a long standing commercial product, that is well established and I've never seen this type of issue before. We use a client program to send data to a server. Sometimes, because of firewalls in customer environments, we allow the end user to specify outbound port ranges to bind, however, in this particular issue i'm seeing, we're not doing that, and are using port 0 to perform a bind. From everything i've read, this means to pick a random port. But what I can't find out is, what does that mean to the kernel/OS. If i'm asking for a random port, how can that already be in use? Strictly speaking, only the unique pairing of src ip/src port & dst ip/port make the connection unique. I believe the same port can be used, if talking to another destination ip, but maybe that's not relevant here. So, we have a long standing commercial product,