Hi all, There is one limitation with the current OSC UI design and Albert summed it up well during IFC: several faust applications cannot share the same UDP input port on the same machine. The default port number is 5510, once reserved, the next free port will be allocated and thus you can observe messages like: Faust OSC version 1.00 application ‘dsp1' is running on UDP ports 5510, 5511, 5512 Faust OSC version 1.00 application ‘dsp2' is running on UDP ports 5513, 5511, 5512 Faust OSC version 1.00 application ‘dsp3' is running on UDP ports 5514, 5511, 5512 It complicates the communication scheme when several faust applications are running on the same machine. The -port option can be used to define a predictable communication scheme but this requires having control tools capable of communicating over multiple ports.
I propose the following solution to this issue: a new command line option [ -reuse ] to share a listening port between several applications on the same host. It works in conjunction with the multicast address 224.0.0.1. Thus, messages addressed to applications launched with `-reuse 1` must be send to the IP address 224.0.0.1. **Note**: any application running on any host on the same local network, launched with `-reuse 1` and using the same listening port, will receive all the messages addressed to 224.0.0.1 on this port. Different listening port numbers can be used to create a group of applications restricted to a local host or to create an arbitrary group of applications distributed over the local network. Let me know what you think. — Dom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Faudiostream-users mailing list Faudiostream-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/faudiostream-users
