Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted exception throwing in WCF

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Lets say that you are invoking a web service from another web service. Both are on the same box. You might be making authenticated or unauthenticated calls and perhaps you are setting the 
KeepAlive = false. 

Intermittently, (under load) you might get "Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted (typically under load)." You might be wondering why are you getting a *SOCKET* Exception...

Here is the scoop

1. When you make authenticated calls, the client is closing connections. And when you are making authenticated calls  repeatedly to the same server, you are making and closing connections repeatedly

2. The same might happen when you are making regular http [un authenticated] calls but setting keep-alive = false.

When a connection is closed, on the side that is closing the connection the 5 tuple 
{ Protocol, Local IP, Local Port, Remote IP, Remote Port} goes into a TIME_WAIT state for 240 seconds by default. In this case, the protocol is fixed - TCP the local IP, remote IP and remote PORT are also typically fixed. So the variable is the local port.  What happens is that when you don't bind a port in the range 1024-5000 is used.  So roughly you have 4000 ports. If you use all of them in 4 minutes - meaning roughly you  make 16 web service calls per second for 4 minutes you will exhaust all the ports. That is the cause of this exception. 

OK now how can this be fixed?

1. One of the ways is to increase the dynamic port range. The max by default is 5000. You can set this up to 65534. 

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\MaxUserPort is the key to use.

2. The second thing you can do is once the connection does get into an TIME_WAIT state you can reduce the time it is  in that state, Default is 4 minutes, but you can set this to 30 seconds 

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\TCPTimedWaitDelay is the key to use. 
Set this to 30 seconds

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