xPL Networking Questions

[Gerry Duprey <gerry@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Howdy,

When using network xPL on a computer, do you absolutely HAVE to have a HUB
running on the PC you want to run xPL apps on?  If you have only one app
for
the PC, can't it just bind to port 3865 and be done with it?

Also, if a single program is advertising itself as a number of different
xPL
devices, is it OK that in the configuration broadcast, all the device
specify the same UDP port # to listen on?

It appears to me the hub in xPL is a lot "thinner" than the hub
xAP uses --
does that sound right?  With xPL, it seems the only real function of the
hub
is to multiplex the single port 3865 -- xPL apps still brocast by
themselves
(not through the hub).

I would imagine I'd normally be running a hub, but in some small scale
cases, it may be the only thing on a dedicate mini-linux system is the xPL
app and a hub would not really be necessary.

Thanks again,

Gerry

P.S. One of the things I really like about xPL is that it's pretty well
speced out what does what.  One of my frustrations with xAP is it had lots
and lots of vaugaries about what each data item did and often no one wanted
to make commitments to it.  As a result, it was difficult to pick a single
way to "do someting".  In xPL, this is much, much clearer!


--
Gerry Duprey
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
http://www.cdp1802.org