On 30-03-2003 18:47, "Richard Altenburg" <realbasic at brainchild dot nl> wrote:
>> Technically it is not possible to bind multiple sockets to the same port
>> on the same machine (who gets the packets?)
>>
>
> That was my thought too, but I write this great ;-) news-downloader that
> does something I don't even understand myself: it communicates through port
> 119 on the same server in various sockets, and they do not mind at all.
>
To answer my own question: I think this can work because I am behind a
router that does Network Address Translation (NAT). If it gives every new
socket that connects to the Internet an own internal address, this router
would distinguish each and every request and answer that goes in and out,
and send this to the appropriate socket (but that would still give my Mac
only one address and port).
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