[AG-TECH] NetWorkadress allocation

[Michael Braitmaier]

I recognized that when I startup the bridgeserver it assignes the unicast 
ports to the multicast ports different than last time. For example:
1st startup:
50096 --> 59922

2nd startup:
50096 --> 59924

Therefore I looked into the code and finally arrived at 
NetworkAddressAllocator.py.
This class seems to select ports on a random base. I found the symbol 
NetworkAddressAllocator.INTERVAL which I assumed to be a sequential port 
selection approach. Unfortunately this seems not to be implemented yet. So I 
tried to do it on my own, for our local installation, as we required fixed 
assignment of uc-ports to mc-ports. My question now is regarding the method

def AllocatePortInRange(self, even, portBase, portMax):

I would like to know what the parameter even stands for. Is it indicating 
whether the port to be allocated should be an even port number or uneven?

Clearing this for me would be very helpful
Thanks.

Michael Braitmaier
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Dipl.-Inf. Michael Braitmaier
HLRS - Visualization / Video Conferencing
University of Stuttgart
Germany
Website: http://www.hlrs.de/organization/vis/people/braitmaier/