I am trying to create a connection over a specific port using the netsend object. this is something i've never done before and am not sure i'm doing it right. when i try to connect using the ip address and port number, it says "attempted socket connection actively refused by host." when it try using the host name, it says "bad host." what could account for this problem? it's connected with an ethernet cable over a linksys ethernet network. any help would be appreciated.

I am trying to create a connection over a specific port using the netsend object.  this is something i've never done before and am not sure i'm doing it right.  when i try to connect using the ip address and port number, it says "attempted socket connection actively refused by host."  when it try using the host name, it says "bad host."  what could account for this problem?  it's connected with an ethernet cable over a linksys ethernet network.  any help would be appreciated.


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> "attempted socket connection actively refused by host."

do you have any firewall software running on the receiving machine? If 

it's a WindowsXP machine it has firewall build in and you have to 

manually open the port you want to connect to.

do you have any firewall software running on the receiving machine? If 
it's a WindowsXP machine it has firewall build in and you have to 
manually open the port you want to connect to.

it might have something to do with that. although i've tried manually opening the port in every way i can think of, the netsend now just tries to connect and then never does. would that be explained by the port not being open?

it might have something to do with that.  although i've tried manually opening the port in every way i can think of, the netsend now just tries to connect and then never does.  would that be explained by the port not being open?


> it might have something to do with that. although i've tried manually opening the port in every way i can think of, the netsend now just tries to connect and then never does. would that be explained by the port not being open?

Yes or no. Depends on the firewall I think.

If you connect to a port where nothing is listening, netsend tries to 

connect for a while and then says "bad host" (if the IP was not 

reachable) or something like "failed to connect" if nothing is listening 

Maybe you can tell me a secret: which OS are you on? Both for the 

sending and the receiving part. That would really help to narrow things 

down. Are you using the help patches or is it just going crazy if you 

put the stuff into your own patches? Which Max version if you are on 

> it might have something to do with that.  although i've tried manually opening the port in every way i can think of, the netsend now just tries to connect and then never does.  would that be explained by the port not being open?

If you connect to a port where nothing is listening, netsend tries to 
connect for a while and then says "bad host" (if the IP was not 
reachable) or something like "failed to connect" if nothing is listening 
on that port number.

Maybe you can tell me a secret: which OS are you on? Both for the 
sending and the receiving part. That would really help to narrow things 
down. Are you using the help patches or is it just going crazy if you 
put the stuff into your own patches? Which Max version if you are on 
Mac? Which netsend version?

Using the netsend-1.1test5-intel.sit version with the help file and

Max 4.6 on a PPC mac, I have the following messages:

It was working fine with previous versions of max and netsend and I

didn"t change anything to my network, exept the new version of Max and

> > it might have something to do with that. although i've tried manually opening the port in every way i can think of, the netsend now just tries to connect and then never does. would that be explained by the port not being open?

> Yes or no. Depends on the firewall I think.

> If you connect to a port where nothing is listening, netsend tries to

> connect for a while and then says "bad host" (if the IP was not

> reachable) or something like "failed to connect" if nothing is listening

> Maybe you can tell me a secret: which OS are you on? Both for the

> sending and the receiving part. That would really help to narrow things

> down. Are you using the help patches or is it just going crazy if you

> put the stuff into your own patches? Which Max version if you are on

Using the netsend-1.1test5-intel.sit version with the help file and
Max 4.6 on a PPC mac, I have the following messages:

UDP
"connect 192.168.0.20 3001"
netsend : connecting to port 3001
"send foo 1"
netsend : Connection refused(61)

UDP
"connect 255.255.255.255 3001"
netsend : connecting to port 3001
"send foo 1"
netsend : Permission denied (13)

It was working fine with previous versions of max and netsend and I
didn"t change anything to my network, exept the new version of Max and
netsend.

2006/9/1, Olaf Matthes :
> chris wrote:
>
> > it might have something to do with that.  although i've tried manually opening the port in every way i can think of, the netsend now just tries to connect and then never does.  would that be explained by the port not being open?
>
> Yes or no. Depends on the firewall I think.
>
> If you connect to a port where nothing is listening, netsend tries to
> connect for a while and then says "bad host" (if the IP was not
> reachable) or something like "failed to connect" if nothing is listening
> on that port number.
>
> Maybe you can tell me a secret: which OS are you on? Both for the
> sending and the receiving part. That would really help to narrow things
> down. Are you using the help patches or is it just going crazy if you
> put the stuff into your own patches? Which Max version if you are on
> Mac? Which netsend version?
>
> Olaf
>


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