automatic client reconnection

so basically, im trying to create an automatic method that will simply detect if the current client is disconnected, and if so simply, reconnect it, and resume its current ongoing work, the part the im stuck at is how to "reconnect" part.
for starters, i wanted to make it safe, so i just said, well, lets close everything, and i disposed all sockets and aborted all threads, but then i could not reconnect the gateway socket, due to port exhustion, or simply could not connect to the same ip/port, also i couldnt create an entierly new thread and start a client from there, due to "thread state is running or terminated and it cannot restart", well, it seems that im missing something, its a simple task, but im having hard time accomplishing that, glad if someone would help
p.s im trying to re-connect the same server machine obviously over and overc.

you cannot restart an aborted thread, make sure you create a new instance of it
once you detect the client disconnection, you can simply just start the gateway thread back again.
you shouldn't have any problems with ports if you make sure you dispose everything.

just use something like
if (!ag_socket.IsConnected())
{
Globals.MainWindow.Log(" Disconnected from the Agentserver.");

Gateway gw = new Gateway();
gw.Start(textBoxIP.Text, textBoxPort.Text);
...

as sarkoplata already said

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Originally Posted by Bizzyyyyy just use something like if (!ag_socket.IsConnected()) { Globals.MainWindow.Log(" Disconnected from the Agentserver."); Gateway gw = new Gateway(); gw.Start(textBoxIP.Text, textBoxPort.Text); ... as sarkoplata already said

ok guys thanks, ill try and report back