uncutstone wu wrote:
> I am writing a program which brute force scans a large group of IP 
> addresses to find ftp servers. Most of the ip addresses cannot be 
> connected. After cetain number of connection tries, the socket gets 
> broken.
> 
> How can I work around to this since it maybe a bug in the platform?

Maybe you could talk to the TCP socket at a lower protocol level than 
connect, using raw IP packets. The source of nmap might be helpful. 
(I've no idea whether win98 supports raw sockets, though...)

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