[gameprogrammer] Re: udp and max connections

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 12:29 -0500, Roger D Vargas wrote:
> Im working on an UDP based server with SDL_Net and I have found a 
> problem. An UDP socket can handle a limited number of connections 
> because each socket has 32 channels, and each channel supports 32 
> clients. How can I break this limit? Can I have several sockets 
> listening on same port or can I forget about binding each client to a 
> channel and sending packets using the first available channel?
> 

There are 2 things you can do. You can recompile SDL_net with larger
values for the number channels and connections, or you can ignore
channels and connections completely and just keep track of the addresses
your self.

                Bob Pendleton



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