How to connect two clients at the same time when using socket communication？

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Zoe Liu asked May 16 2019 at 1:25 AM Zoe Liu commented May 17 2019 at 1:29 AM

How to connect two clients at the same time when using socket communication？

Hello,

I would like to use the FlexSim model as a server and receive messages from two clients. I tried to add two "client" nodes in the tree, then "servercreatemain" twice (enter two different port numbers). But I can only receive the information sent by the second client. How can I receive messages from two clients at the same time? Thank you!

Software Version:

FlexSim 19.1.0

socket

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Answer 1 · 2019-05-16T11:00:21Z

Mischa Spelt answered May 16 2019 at 11:00 AM Zoe Liu commented May 17 2019 at 1:29 AM

The server should (and probably can) be listening on only one port at the time. So you should call servercreatemain only once, and connect both clients at the same port.

servercreatemain(1880);
 
// Wait for two clients to connect
Array clients = [0, 0];
clients[1] = serveraccept(0);
clients[2] = serveraccept(0);
 
// Send a message to both of them
serversend(clients[1], "Hello, you are number 1");
serversend(clients[2], "Hello, you are number 2");
 
 
// Close the connections
servercloseconnection(clients[1]);
servercloseconnection(clients[2]);
 
 
// Stop listening
serverclosemain();

This is not FlexSim-specific by the way.

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