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➜ SMAUG coding
➜ Descriptor data port
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| Posted by
| Greven
Canada (835 posts) Bio
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| Sun 25 Jul 2004 01:46 AM (UTC) |
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| In stock smaug, descriptor data has a integer member called port. It is set in comm.c withdnew->port = ntohs( sock.sin_port );
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Nobody ever expects the spanish inquisition!
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| Posted by
| Zeno
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| Reply #1 on Sun 25 Jul 2004 02:08 AM (UTC) |
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| | I believe it was only used for information for the Immortals to know what port the player is connect from. |
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| Posted by
| Samson
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| Reply #2 on Sun 25 Jul 2004 02:27 AM (UTC) |
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| | It simply tells you what port the person's computer opened to make contact with the mud. There's not much useful purpose behind it that I'm aware of. The mud doesn't care what port they are communicating through. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #3 on Sun 25 Jul 2004 09:48 PM (UTC) |
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| | Conceivably you might use it for a packet sniffer, to distinguish one connection from another, however apart from that it is probably one of those things you store because you can, not because it is particularly useful. |
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