UDP Channel

Syntax

dp_connect udp -host hostname -port thePort -myaddr addr -myport port

Comments

UDP is a stripped down version of TCP.  UDP does the bare necessities and nothing more: it does not do error checking, reliabilitiy or packet sequencing.  It is, however, much faster than TCP and allows dynamic configuration of the destination IP address and port.

hostname is the IP address or DNS hostname of the destination machine and is optional.

thePort is the destination port address and is optional.

addr is the local IP address and is optional.

port is the local port and is optional.

 

Note that if no arguments are given, "dp_connect udp" will open a UDP socket but fconfigure will need to be run on the channel before data can be sent through it since the socket does not have a configured destination.

Examples

dp_connect udp

dp_connect udp -host foo.com -port 1025
dp_connect udp -myaddr foo.bar.com -myport 5150
dp_connect udp -host foo.bar.com -port 5150 -myaddr foo.org -myport 1066