How to "kill" a socket

[nahumtakum]

I have created the following class: public class Mobile : IDisposable { private TcpListener tcpListener public Socket sockToClient } public Mobile (string Remote_Ep) { IPHostEntry hoen = Dns.Resolve(Remote_Ep); IPEndPoint ep = new IPEndPoint(hoen.AddressList[0], 11000); tcpListener = new TcpListener(ep); tcpListener.Start(); Thread t = new Thread( new ThreadStart(thread_proc_IO) ); t.Start(); } private void thread_proc_IO() { bool fDone = false; while( !fDone ) { try { Console.Write("\n[tid {0}]: Listening on port {1}", GetCurrThread.id(), mb_frs_port ); sockToClient = tcpListener.AcceptSocket(); // @@@ if( sockToClient.Connected ) { Console.Write("\n[tid {0}] Client connected", GetCurrThread.id()); ClientHandler Handler = new ClientHandler(sockToClient); Handler.StartRead(); } } catch (Exception ex) { Console.Write( "\nMobile.thread_proc_IO: [tid {0}] Exception in I/O thread - exiting. " + ex.Message, GetCurrThread.id() ); fDone = true; } } } I am creating several instances of this class, and adds every instance to ArrayList. When I am trying to remove one of the instances, removing it from the ArrayList is not enough I am trying to use dispose, sockToClient_dbg.Shutdown(SocketShutdown.Both), sockToClient.Close(), tcpListener.Stop() but nothing seem to work. I also read about this bug located at www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/1/8442.aspx : "The TCPClient has some known bugs. One of them is that a TCP-connection is NOT closed - when you call .Close(), .Dispose() method. I spent a long time figuring this out. I used Sockets instead at it all worked perfectly...." Does anyone has any idea how to kill this socket ?