diff --git a/src/source.rs b/src/source.rs
index f701751..222dd1b 100644
--- a/src/source.rs
+++ b/src/source.rs
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ struct SacnSourceInternal {
 }
 
 impl SacnSource {
-    /// Constructs a new `SacnSource` with the given name, binding to an IPv4 address.
+    /// Constructs a new `SacnSource` with the given name, binding to an IPv4 address on an ephemeral port.
     /// This generates a new CID automatically using random values.
     ///
     /// # Errors
@@ -149,12 +149,14 @@ impl SacnSource {
     pub fn with_cid_v4(name: &str, cid: Uuid) -> Result<SacnSource> {
         let ip = SocketAddr::new(
             IpAddr::V4(Ipv4Addr::new(0, 0, 0, 0)),
-            ACN_SDT_MULTICAST_PORT,
+            // Use an ephemeral port. Binding the ACN port would put this socket in the receivers' `SO_REUSEPORT` group,
+            // and Linux would then hand some of the unicast sACN addressed to this host to this socket, where it is never read.
+            0,
         );
         SacnSource::with_cid_ip(name, cid, ip)
     }
 
-    /// Constructs a new `SacnSource` with the given name, binding to an IPv6 address.
+    /// Constructs a new `SacnSource` with the given name, binding to an IPv6 address on an ephemeral port.
     /// By default this will only receive IPv6 data but IPv4 can also be enabled by calling `set_ipv6_only(false)`.
     ///
     /// # Errors
@@ -171,13 +173,19 @@ impl SacnSource {
     pub fn with_cid_v6(name: &str, cid: Uuid) -> Result<SacnSource> {
         let ip = SocketAddr::new(
             IpAddr::V6(Ipv6Addr::new(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)),
-            ACN_SDT_MULTICAST_PORT,
+            // Use an ephemeral port. Binding the ACN port would put this socket in the receivers' `SO_REUSEPORT` group,
+            // and Linux would then hand some of the unicast sACN addressed to this host to this socket, where it is never read.
+            0,
         );
         SacnSource::with_cid_ip(name, cid, ip)
     }
 
     /// Constructs a new `SacnSource` with the given name and binding to the supplied ip.
     ///
+    /// Avoid binding to `ACN_SDT_MULTICAST_PORT` if a `SacnReceiver` may run on the same host. The socket would share the
+    /// port with the receiver, and on Linux some unicast sACN sent to this host would be delivered to the source's socket
+    /// and lost. Port 0 (an ephemeral port) is a good choice.
+    ///
     /// # Errors
     /// See (`with_cid_ip`)[`with_cid_ip`]
     pub fn with_ip(name: &str, ip: SocketAddr) -> Result<SacnSource> {
diff --git a/tests/src_tests.rs b/tests/src_tests.rs
index ee9605f..90c61ff 100644
--- a/tests/src_tests.rs
+++ b/tests/src_tests.rs
@@ -702,3 +702,53 @@ const TEST_DATA_MULTIPLE_UNIVERSE: [u8; 712] = [
     0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
     0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 100,
 ];
+
+/// A source created with the default constructor must not take a share of the unicast sACN sent to a receiver on the
+/// same host. Both bind with `SO_REUSEPORT`, so if the source also bound the ACN port, Linux would spread unicast
+/// datagrams between the two sockets by source port and the receiver would miss some of them.
+#[test]
+#[serial]
+fn test_default_source_does_not_steal_unicast() {
+    use sacn::receive::SacnReceiver;
+    use std::net::UdpSocket;
+    use std::time::Duration;
+
+    let rcv_addr = SocketAddr::new(IpAddr::V4(Ipv4Addr::LOCALHOST), ACN_SDT_MULTICAST_PORT);
+    let mut rcv = SacnReceiver::with_ip(rcv_addr, None).unwrap();
+    rcv.listen_universes(&[1]).unwrap();
+
+    let _src = SacnSource::new_v4("Idle source").unwrap();
+
+    const PACKETS: usize = 20;
+    let mut received = 0;
+    for _ in 0..PACKETS {
+        let packet = AcnRootLayerProtocol {
+            pdu: E131RootLayer {
+                cid: Uuid::new_v4(),
+                data: E131RootLayerData::DataPacket(DataPacketFramingLayer {
+                    source_name: "Sender".into(),
+                    priority: 100,
+                    synchronization_address: 0,
+                    sequence_number: 0,
+                    preview_data: false,
+                    stream_terminated: false,
+                    force_synchronization: false,
+                    universe: 1,
+                    data: DataPacketDmpLayer {
+                        property_values: vec![0, 1, 2].into(),
+                    },
+                }),
+            },
+        };
+        // A new socket each time gives a new ephemeral source port, and so a different SO_REUSEPORT hash.
+        let sender = UdpSocket::bind((Ipv4Addr::LOCALHOST, 0)).unwrap();
+        sender
+            .send_to(&packet.pack_alloc().unwrap(), rcv_addr)
+            .unwrap();
+        if rcv.recv(Some(Duration::from_millis(500))).is_ok() {
+            received += 1;
+        }
+    }
+
+    assert_eq!(received, PACKETS, "receiver missed unicast packets");
+}