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How do I choose a suitable network port?
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As the subject title says. How does one go about choosing a suitable network port on which to run the game.
Are there preferred port ranges?
Any help would ne most usefull.
Cheers.
Well, you more-or-less pick it out of your !@$. It''s best to avoid well known ports, in case someone wants to run you''re game and a server of that type on the same machine. 21, 80, 113, 27960 would all be bad choices (ftp, http, identd, quake3).
Make it so the server admin can set what port it uses, and pick a default. Pick something on the high-end, over 16384 and you should be fine. There is a reserved block for people to randomly use, but it doesn''t matter too much if you can change what port it''s on.
Magmai Kai Holmlor
- Not For Rent
Make it so the server admin can set what port it uses, and pick a default. Pick something on the high-end, over 16384 and you should be fine. There is a reserved block for people to randomly use, but it doesn''t matter too much if you can change what port it''s on.
Magmai Kai Holmlor
- Not For Rent
You might find this interesting: http://www.ec11.dial.pipex.com/port-num.htm. As MKH said, just don''t use the same port as another common network service.
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I figured that you just randomly picked a number out of hat. Exclude any popular ones and a way you go.
Cheers all
Cheers all
This is something I wrote way back in the day when I was first learning Java. I lovingly named it Port Bitch.
"If consquences dictate our course of action, it doesn''t matter what''s right, it''s only wrong if you get caught."
- Tool
"If consquences dictate our course of action, it doesn''t matter what''s right, it''s only wrong if you get caught."
- Tool
Nobody will really bother unless you use a low port number (especially don''t use <1024, as these ports are reserved for root / admin on many systems).
Officially, a list of port numbers is maintained by the IANA - http://www.iana.org/
cu,
Prefect
One line of sourcecode says more than a thousand words.
Officially, a list of port numbers is maintained by the IANA - http://www.iana.org/
cu,
Prefect
One line of sourcecode says more than a thousand words.
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