Port Assignments for multiple streams.

[EWAN1]

Ports are specified in the UDP/TCP part of the datagram header.

If there are multiple sources (say cameras) streaming to the same port on a PC can they all be processed on the same port (seperated by IP header)or is there some interaction to re-assign other ports to some streams?

There could be a fundamental flaw in my understanding of Ports, if so....opps.

Thabks for any help.

 

[svermill]

It's probably better to think about sockets. A socket is an IP/port pair. Think of a web server. It listens on port 80. Lots of traffic shows up for port 80 and with the same desination IP. But the source IP/port and destination IP/port in total will always be unique. By keeping track of the entire flow (source and destination), there is no confusion. Is that what you were concerned with?