[ENet-discuss] Connecting to self

[Ruud van Gaal]

All I can say that in principle this works; I use this every day (a single
exe running both and a server and a client, where the client connects to
its own server).
Ruud


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Krasimir Marinov <krasi at jklsemi.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I’ve been trying to connect to the host:port that my ENetHost is bound to,
> i.e. connect and send to myself.
> Unfortunately this almost immediately results in event DISCONNECT.
>
> Looking at the archives I found the same problem raised 9 years ago (see
> below).
>
> Any reason for this behaviour?
>
> Regards,
> Krasimir
>
> [ENet-discuss] Connecting to self.*Adam D. Moss* adam at gimp.org <enet-discuss%40cubik.org?Subject=%5BENet-discuss%5D%20Connecting%20to%20self.&In-Reply-To=>
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>
> Hi!
> I have a funny problem.  My app listens on a port and then attempts
> to connect to itself (for testing purposes, for now).  But this
> merely eventually causes a DISCONNECT (presumably time-out) event,
> with no CONNECT.
>
> However, if I launch a second process and do the connect from
> there, the connection is fine.
>
> Am I being stupid for attempting to have a process be a client
> of its own server, or is there some unexpected strangeness which
> prevents an ENet server from being its own client?
>
> Thanks,
> --Adam
>
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