Suggestion: vtunerd - manual assigned ports.

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Hi

I dont know where to write this but, in vtunerc we are able to use direct 
connection with ip and port, but I havent seen this in vtunerd.

So my suggestion is to be able to set a manual port in vtunerd so we/I only 
need to open a couple of ports instead of all of them. :)

If this isnt possible then dont waste any time on this :) 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kriss...@gmail.com on 5 Sep 2011 at 7:31

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Hi, 

I agree, predictable ports are a useful feature. I marked it as 
"Type-Enhancement".

Roland

Original comment by rolmie@gmail.com on 5 Sep 2011 at 7:56

• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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I ack also.

One note: we have to differentiate between VTUNER_DISCOVER_PORT (what is static 
value 0x9989) and VTUNER_SESSION_DATA_PORT + VTUNER_SESSION_COMMAND_PORT (which 
are made dynamically). Second ports we can't make static fully, because of 
possibility of more then one session (not now, but in close future :-)

So, first step - very simple - is to add config option for discovery port. 

May be later we can even add option for semi-static session ports.

/Honza

Original comment by jpetrous on 5 Sep 2011 at 8:08

• Changed state: Accepted

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to make firewalling easier, it should be sufficient to allocate this
from a given port range, the size of the range has to be 2*(number of
tuners). Another way would be to listen on fixed ports for command and
data session.

Original comment by rolmie@gmail.com on 5 Sep 2011 at 8:16

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no deveopment on this suggestion?

Original comment by axf...@gmail.com on 11 Apr 2012 at 9:53

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Well, I would prefer to finish fixes for kernel 3.3, but seems there is still 
no simple way of testing (if somebody can give me hint which linux distro has 
kernel 3.3 inside I would really appreciate that) so I can work on this "port 
fixing" feature on the weekend. 

I drop msg if get something useful.

Honza

Original comment by jpetrous on 11 Apr 2012 at 9:13