ConnectionID question

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 10/9/12 10:07 AM, "François Van Lerberghe" <frvanlerberghe at gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi François, 

> Hello Ruslan,
> 
> When a client connect to the server, we can get its ConnectionID. Is it a
> complete random number ? Has it a minimum and maximum ?

No promises.

Yes consider it as random,
In range of declared type   ULONG  ( uint_32  )

 
> I want to rely on it to have a number unique to the client, but I need a
> number not greater than 20. If I know that this number is between, for
> example, 15 and 35, I could use a modulo function to meet my needs.
> 
> Can you say me more on this subject.

You need something else ...

Each client on next connect must give you same number?
Then you need some of clints prefs on HDD on his side



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Ruslan Zasukhin
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Paradigma Software, Inc

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