What gives with Sockets?

[Björnke von Gierke]

What port are you using?
All ports below a certain threshold need root access on mac os x and 
win nt upwards...


On Jun 15 2005, at 04:47, Thomas McCarthy wrote:

>
> Hi, builiding a simple server and client. Simple stuff--open a port on 
> the server and listen. Write to the server from the client.
>
> I had it working at home (mac OS 8.6 and win98). then I brought it to 
> work (OSX and NT4) no good. It failed both ways (mac as server/win 
> client and vice versa) This shouldn't be rocket science.
>
> I did something like this about 4 years ago in MetaCard and vaguely 
> remember pulling out some hairs then, too.
>
> could there be some Ethernet-hub thing going on? I think I've got the 
> addresses all right. Argggghhhh!
>
> tom
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