Port Sharing/Ip address switching

[djd5560]

Hello All,

I'm running with the latest version of the UDP Custom Device, and was looking for a potential feature to be added if possible. I either need source ports to be shared amongst transmitted packets, or to have 'IP address' be available as a channel as well for transmitted packages, so it can be switched, like how the port channel is currently implemented for the tx packets.

I currently have a need for the tx packets to be sent all from the same source port, but to different destination ports and ip addresses. I was able to make a common source port via the buffered tx packet, but then was unable to change the IP address for multiple targets.

If I have multiple tx packets with different IPs, different destination ports, but the same source port, it gives an error on deployment. Again, the source ports need to be the same in order to work in my configuration, or I would have changed them to be unique.

[ryanvallieres]

Hi @djd5560

This is certainly a common feature that's been requested. It's been tabled for a bit, but I believe the immediate plan is to add support for shared ports (transmit ports, specifically). There is some ordering (which packet goes first, second, etc...) concerns that need to be worked out too.

I don't have a timeline for exactly when this will be implemented, but it'd the next major feature on my plate. This did come up previously with issue #64 - so having multiple requestors is a good vote of need.