[HECnet] Intermittent Connection with PyDECnet?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2020-03-02 19:59, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2020-03-02 19:56, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>>> First of all, unless PyDECnet is somewhat limited, it should be fine
>>> using the standard Multinet port for all incoming connections
>>
>>    I don't see how you can have multiple Multinet TCP connections all 
>> listening on port 700 at the same time.  Yes, you can have multiple 
>> outgoing connections all to port 700 on some remote machine, but 
>> that's not the same.  And for UDP it's no problem for everybody to 
>> share the same port, but again that's not the same.
> 
> Hum. Have you ever wondered how HTTP works, Bob? Everyone from the 
> outside connects to port 80 on the server, and everyone gets served, in 
> parallel...
> Same thing.

And I don't meant to insult. Maybe we're just talking past each other 
here? But really, in RSX, I can setup multiple connections in TCP, all 
using local port 700, all being connected by different remote ends.
TCP don't have any problems with the concept.

   Johnny

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