Sorry if it's not clear. I used the term IP port to distinguish that it's not a place of refuge for boats, a fortified wine, a hole on the back of the machine and so on.

I am also unsure of the exact mechanism but it seems to be a push. The current software connects to the remote port and receives data which it processes and passes to a database. The system is such that there can only be a single connection to the remote port. That is controlled at the remote end and we have no control of that.

The idea is to have a local program that makes the connection to the remote system and simply pipes the information to two (or more) local ports so we can connect more than one copy of the current software to the data stream. If there is more to the connection than this then it will not be worth the effort to fix it and we will carry on as we are. One idea I had was that if I make the local port act like a forking server in some manner maybe I could make the local connections more "dynamic" rather than fixing to 2 or more fixed port numbers.

To recap, the new tee program will replace the current software in connecting to the remote system. The current software will connect to the tee. The tee will do little bar act as a tee. If the tee does need to pull data it will do so and pass the data to it's outputs. I don't think that the current clients do more than suck data. All the tee will do is present that "flow" to more than one point.

In reply to Re^4: Port duplicator by tweetiepooh
in thread Port duplicator by tweetiepooh

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