Hi there! I''m making a server application that used UDP. It should handle over 1000 clients. One way of handling multiple clients with UDP is create one socket that receives all datagrams. I would just have to take a look at the address structure to see which client has sent it. A second way would be to create multimple sockets, each on a different port and then use TCP concurrent server techniques (IOCP, RT Signals, select(), ...) for checking each socket. Are there other ways? I''d like to have different sockets on the same port where each socket receives and sends datagrams from and to one client. I don''t know how to do this. I hope someone does. Thanks! Lysandius

it would be severely innefficient to have a seperate socket for every client in a UDP architecture, esp. for 1000+ clients. as u mentioned, it would be easier (more efficient) to identify clients based on address and port.

having the OS notify you when there is data available on a socket (i.e. select(), signals) is relatively slow. you might want to look into non-blocking sockets. if your server app doesn''t have to be blazing fast, select() or something similar might be fine if u don''t have *too* many clients at the same time.