Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Question regarding server

[Brendan L. <bm...@ri...>]

Hey Aviral,


> About your first mail, I didn't quite get what you meant by "automatic
> allocation of ports". IMHO, for games, there's a static server port on which
> the server *listen*s for connections from clients, and once a connection
> is *accept*ed, the server *send*s and *rec*ei*v*es data (on an implicitly
> bound port; explicitly binding isn't necessary) per client. The reason why
> TuxMath can't handle running multiple servers atm. is that MathCards (the
> part of TuxMath) that generates data uses file level variables to maintain
> state. I had started some work on fixing that, and it should be ready soon
> (read: *sometime in the future*)
>
>
Man, have I been out of the loop. I'm trying to understand here...we want to
run multiple instances of the server on a single machine? Or does this
involve the client connecting to more than one server?

In any case, it sounds like there's some good stuff happening :)

Best,
Brendan