Re: [Boost-users] Bind to first available port

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Bind to first available port
From: Rutger ter Borg (rutger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-30 15:35:43

Mathew Benson wrote:

> I know how to do this with Windows sockets, but how do I bind a UDP listen
> socket to the first available port?  I want to send a packet from client
> to the server to subscribe to data and tell the server what port to send
> the
> subscribed data to.  I don't care what port the client listens to.  If I
> hard code it, I can only run a single client on a PC.  I want to bind to
> the first available one so I can run as many clients on the same PC as I
> want.

AFAIK, just bind to port 0 and you will get assigned a random port.

Cheers,

Rutger