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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Markku,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I believe the Windows default is that ports can’t be shared but there is – if I remember correctly - a setting in the properties for .NET’s UDPlistener (possibly called ‘exclusiveaddress’ or similar and/or in the registry that can change that. I am away from my stuff right now so can’t check.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>73 Olof G0CKV<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> support-bounces@f5mzn.org [mailto:support-bounces@f5mzn.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Markku Oksanen<br><b>Sent:</b> 19 March 2014 17:39<br><b>To:</b> support@win-test.com; sm5ajv@qrq.se; Markku Oksanen [private]<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [WT-support] Controlling custom hardware?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444'>All</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.95pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.95pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444'>First, thank you for the helpful suggestions and hints.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.95pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.95pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444'>For the past few days I have been trying to make a MS .NET 4.0 UDP listener work under VB2010, using the System.Net.Sockets namespace, which gives you essentially a 5 line UDP listener.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.95pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Now, this works but ONLY one time because I don't manage to release the resources (the port) in a proper manner and after countless hours of searching, I can't find the answer either. And still there is plenty of UDP listener SW that works. What to do?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.95pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.95pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444'>So, just because it was simple, I was doing the testing on a single laptop with WT running as the UDP source (broadcasting what WT broadcasts) and it t turns out that when I move WT to an other machine on the same network, all work great!!! My code was OK, it was the way XP TCP/IP stack and ports that caused the errors. Now I have the code I need to go ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.95pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.95pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444'>So, I only need to write the LUA script that checks what radio is active and if "*" was already used etc. and I should be in business to send my custom GAB messages as Ingo suggested.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.95pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.95pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.95pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Markku</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.95pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444'>OH2RA/OG2A/WW1C</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#444444'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>