Hi, I am implementing an information sharing system with messaging as the method. I have a number of client/servers on the same machine. for the client my sequence is socket() bind() /* not necessary though */ connect() send() recv() /* repsonse */ the server is socket() listen() while(true) { accept() recv() send() /* response */ } data from one response buffer is coming in the other response buffers even after making sure that before every client-server interaction i free the buffers and reallocate them. also , the buffer size is 16384 kindly suggest a solution. Gauhar

Need more input... Please show how you are declaring the buffers and the parameters that you pass to recv()

Hi, thanx for the response the problem still remains that buffers from one client server pair still overlap with others. Anywayz I have worked around the problem by taking the number of bytes recv'd and copy those many bytes to a string and forget about the rest which still contains data from other client server pairs. Thanx again, Gauhar