[hpsdr] The UDP ports in the new Ethernet protocol violate the ethos of the Internet.

[George Byrkit]

A well-known to me source of advice says that the only part I got right was the first part
(those ports were in use in the current/old protocol to some extent), and the last part
where I said that avoiding well-known/assigned ports was a good idea.

The rest was somewhat of a misstatement, to be charitable.  Mea culpa!  I had
misunderstood why our firmware/hardware is confined to your local subnet.  It was the
implementing of network code in FPGA that resulted in this circumstance (an incomplete,
thus technically buggy implementation of DHCP is in the FPGA in Verilog code.)

73,
George K9TRV

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From: Hpsdr [mailto:hpsdr-bounces at lists.openhpsdr.org] On Behalf Of George Byrkit
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 11:46 AM
To: 'Matthew J Wolf'; hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] The UDP ports in the new Ethernet protocol violate the ethos of the
Internet.

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Dear Matthew,
Thanks for your observations.  The truth is that these UDP ports (or some of them) were
also used in the previous Ethernet implementation.

Now, 'Internet' isn't of much use, because most ISPs do not route UDP packets, it would
seem.   Thus, all of this is confined to being used inside your own subnet.  That might
make internet standards somewhat less relevant.

However, a conflict with other 'well-known' UDP ports should be avoided, to better ensure
operation of the software and hardware.

George Byrkit, K9TRV



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