Good Day,
I was taking a look at this tutorial to do a TCP Threadpool server. http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-multithreaded-servers/thread-pooled-server.html
It works great for listening/RECEIVING to clients and processing, and returning a response. There is a class inside that I pass in WorkerRunnable into, and that basically prints out the remote socket address (who it was sent from)
public void run(){
synchronized(this){
this.runningThread = Thread.currentThread();
}
openServerSocket();
while(! isStopped()){
Socket clientSocket = null;
try {
clientSocket = this.serverSocket.accept();
} catch (IOException e) {
if(isStopped()) {
System.out.println("Server Stopped.") ;
return;
}
throw new RuntimeException(
"Error accepting client connection", e);
}
this.threadPool.execute(
new WorkerRunnable(clientSocket,
"Thread Pooled Server"));
}
this.threadPool.shutdown();
System.out.println("Server Stopped.") ;
}
The problem is. The remote address is supposed to stay fixed (I am working within my own home wifi router). However, the IP address of the sender stays the same, but the port keeps changing!!
This is a big problem for me..as I need to be able to return a response to the user for future tasks and I actually save this address to use again to send data. When I ran this in a single TCP thread..it stayed fixed (the port).
Why does the threadpool cause the TCP remote address port to keep changing?