Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multi-window display

[Andy R. <an...@pl...>]

John Wojnaroski wrote:
> Alex writes: 
> > In the short term, try just repeating the native-out parameter and
> > use point-to-point UDP links for every client until you have
> > everything else working.  Less efficient for the server, but
> > probably not enough to care.
> 
> Not sure I follow ... would you restart fgfs each time with a new
> "out" address for each client (in this case three). The socket 5500
> binds to the IP address when the socket in instantiated, you would
> have to create additional socket/port bindings inside fgfs to do this
> simultaneously.

No, not with UDP.  UDP sockets can be in an "unconnected" mode where
they can send packets to any IP/port combination.  Take a look at the
sendto(2) system call for the Unix implementation; it takes a struct
sockaddr parameter for each packet sent.  I presume windows has a
functional equivalent.

Andy

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