Facing problems with socket programming for video streaming - python

I have two transceivers which support serial communication (UART). I am using socket programming on python for generating UDP data grams. Is there any way to port these datagrams to the serial port on the transmitter and then back from serial port to UDP datagram on the receiver. I am new to this so some examples would be highly appreciated.

Use the point-to-point protocol (PPP). That's what it was designed to do.
If you're running on Linux or some other UNIX-like operating system, you'll use pppd on both ends of the serial connection.
Most of the articles on setting this kind of thing up date back to the dial-up internet days. Here's an example: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/
Essentially, PPP creates interfaces with IP addresses on both ends of your serial connection. Send packets to the remote interface's IP address, and it tunnels them over the serial link.

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Python raw socket doesn't see outgoing data

I use the following code to create a raw socket : http://pastebin.com/pmg9iKgG
As you can see, i want :
all TCP received packet send from port 5555 of a server to my PC,
all TCP send packets from my PC to port 5555 of a server.
The problem is : i'm only able to see incoming packets, not outgoing packets. This is quite annoying for a sniffer...
Could you help me with this?
I'm using Anaconda as python distro (3.6, x64), on windows 10. wireless (intel) or ethernet (through USB adapter cause slim laptop).
I've search the internet and i haven't seen any problem like that. Moreover, MSDN says that it should work in both way (outgoing and incoming) : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms740548%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
One common use of raw sockets are troubleshooting applications that need to examine IP packets and headers in detail. For example, a raw socket can be used with the SIO_RCVALL IOCTL to enable a socket to receive all IPv4 or IPv6 packets passing through a network interface. For more information, see the SIO_RCVALL reference.
I would appreciate any help with this )))
Just on thing :
i bypass this line of code :
host = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
by :
host = "192.168.0.29"
cause it's not the right value (but that's not the problem, moreover the methode socket.getfqdn() does the job, but i didn't updated my script)
EDIT : it was the windows FW that caused this strange behaviour, by deactivating some filter, i was able to see all incoming and outgoing packets.

Multiple TCP connections in python

I'm trying to write a server for a chat program. I want the server to have a tcp connection with every chat user. Is there way for the server to have multiple tcp connections at the same time without creating a socket for every connection? And if yes, how?
No. Unlike UDP sockets, TCP sockets work are connection-oriented. Whatever data is written into a socket, "magically" appears to come out of the socket at the other end as a stream of data. For that, both sockets maintain a virtual connection, a state. Among other things, the state defines both endpoints of the conntection - IP and port numbers of both sockets. So a single TCP socket can only talk to a single TCP socket at the other end.
UDP sockets on the other hand operate on a per-packet basis (connectionless), allowing you to send a receive packets to/from any destination using the same socket. However, UDP does not guarantee reliability and in-order delivery.
Btw, your question has nothing to do with python. All sockets (except raw sockets) are operating system sockets that work in the same way in all languages.

How can I find the tcp address for another computer to transfer over ethernet?

I need to transfer data via pyzmq through two computers connected by an ethernet cable. I have already set up a script that runs on the same computer correctly, but I need to find the tcp address of the other computer in order to communicate. They both run Ubuntu 14.04. One of them should be a server processing requests while the other sends requests. How do I transfer data over tcp through ethernet? I simply need a way to find the address.
EDIT: (Clarification) I am running a behavioural study. I have a program called OpenSesame which runs in python and takes python scripts. I need a participant to be able to sit at a computer and be able to ask another person questions (specifically for help in a task). I need a server (using pyzmq preferably) to be connected by ethernet and communicate with that computer. It wrote a script. It works on the same computer, but not over ethernet. I need to find the address
Tcp is a protocol that uses an internet connection to Transfer data, through an IP address and specific port, you have to ensure that those ip directions are in the same range and uses the same port. For example: one pc 192.168.1.50 and another pc 192.168.1.60 in 502 port. The easiest way is using a Modem and set an statical address for each pc.
In the following link, you can find easily in which ip direction is connected your Computer. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17012/how-to-find-your-ip-address-in-ubuntu/
Maybe you could periodically send datagram message containing peer's ip address (or some other useful information) to broadcast address, to allow other peers to discover it. And after peer's address is dicovered you can estabish connection via ZeroMQ or other kind... connection. :)

Use UDP without specifc port for Multicast

IP multicast gives you the ability to send a single packet, which is picked up by multiple interfaces if they are subscribed to that multicast. If I understand it correctly.
Now if I want to use UDP, in combination with IP multicast, I am obligated to assign a port to listen to. But now I understand that I only receive UDP packets on a multicast specifically sent to that port. But I would like to intercept all UDP packets send to a certain multicast IP address, regardless of the port and receive them at my single socket.
Is something like this possible?
Preferably accompanied by a python example, if this is possible.
This isn't possible using the BSD socket API (which is roughly the API Python exposes in its socket module) - except by creating 2 ** 16 - 1 sockets and using them to bind to all ports.
It's possible using lower-level interfaces such as the TUN/TAP system offered by Linux.

Pymodbus (Serial) over a tcp serial connection

I will be creating a connection between my Linux server and a cellular modem where the modem will act as a server for serial over TCP.
The modem itself is connected to a modbus device (industrial protocol) via an RS232 connection.
I would like to use pymodbus to facilitate talking to the end modbus device. However, I cannot use the TCP modbus option in PyModbus as the end device speaks serial modbus (Modbus RTU). And I cannot use the serial modbus option in Pymodbus as it expects to open an actual local serial port (tty device) on the linux server.
How can I bridge the serial connection such that the pymodbus library will see the connection as a local serial device?
There is no straightforward solution to trick your linux server into thinking that a MODBUS RTU is actually of MODBUS TCP connection.
In all cases, your modem will have to transfer data from TCP to serial (and the other way around). So I assume that:
1) somehow you can program your modem and instruct it to do whatever you want
2) the manufacturer of the modem has provided a built-in mechanism to do that.
If 1): you should program your modem so that it can replace TCP ADUs by RTU ADUs (and the other way around) when copying data from the TCP connection to the RS link.
If 2): simply provide your RTU frame to whatever API the manufacturer devised.
I actually was working on something similar and decided to make my own Serial/TCP bridge. Using virtual serial ports to handle the communication with each of the modems.
I used the minimalmodbus library although I had to modify it a little in order to handle the virtual serial ports.
I hope you solved your problem and if you didn't I can try to help you out.

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