[Live-devel] why am I getting "bad ports" in groupsock/GroupsockHelper.cpp:setupDatagramSocket()?

[Ross Finlayson]

> +      env << "Bad port number (@1): " << port.num() << "\n"; 
>        return -1; 
>      } 
>  #if defined(__WIN32__) || defined(_WIN32)
> 
> Now, whenever a client connects to the proxy, I get errors such as:
> 
> Bad port number (@1): 14875 
> Bad port number (@1): 15131

You realize, I hope, that the function “Port:num()” returns the port number in network byte order.  If you want to see the actual port number (in host order), you should be outputting “ntohs(port.num())”


> In trying to debug something probably unrelated to this

Please tell us what problem that you’re *really* having, rather than trying to diagnose the problem yourself.


Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/