My app is unable to receive the UDP packets when running in the emulator. UDP packets are sent by below java program on "localhost" over the port 49999.
DatagramSocket clientsocket;
DatagramPacket dp;
BufferedReader br;
InetAddress ia;
byte buf[] = new byte[1024];
int cport = 50000, sport = 49999;
clientsocket = new DatagramSocket(cport);
dp = new DatagramPacket(buf, buf.length);
br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
ia = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
while(true)
{
Random rand = new Random();
String str1 = rand.nextInt(100) + "";
buf = str1.getBytes();
System.out.println("Sending " + str1);
clientsocket.send(new DatagramPacket(buf,str1.length(), ia, sport));
try{
Thread.sleep(100);
} catch(Exception e){}
}
Another java UDP server program running on the same localhost receives the packets fine. This means that the packets are sent to localhost:49999 correctly.
To forward the packets from localhost to the emulator, I did telnet redirect as below:
telnet localhost 49999
redir add udp:49999:49999
The UDP receiver in the app looks like this:
byte[] data = new byte[1400];
DatagramPacket packet = new DatagramPacket(data, 1400);
DatagramSocket socket = new DatagramSocket(49999);
socket.setSoTimeout(200);
try{
socket.receive(packet); ---->> This throws a SocketTimeoutException
} catch(SocketTimeoutException e){}
My understanding was that the telnet redirect should take care of forwarding the packets from my development machine's localhost:49999 to emulator's localhost:49999 so that the data is available on the DatagramSocket(49999). However it keeps throwing the SocketTimeoutException all the time.
It would be a great help to know what is the missing piece of the puzzle here.
