No Port 30003 traffic

[Tallyho]

It appears that I have no port 30003 output from my RB (2009).
I was happily sharing my live data on the PP network when all of sudden NADA !
It just stopped outputting info, as far as I know I have changed nothing.
I have also tried SBSPlotter to check for any output (after switching off PP) and that too reports no output.
I have also wireshark to monitor port 30003 and nothing.
Is this a hardware failure or a software problem or even a USER problem.

Help !

[AirNav Support]

Restart RB and it should be fine.

The port does not like 2 connections, so if you connected with something else it would have probably got upset and stopped outputting.

[Tallyho]

As far as I know there are no other connections on this port.
Using Active Ports application it shows nothing connected on this port or accessing this port before firing up either Planeplotter or SBSPlotter.
Any suggestions on how to check for something using this port or connecting to the RB?

[Andy Frost]

Tallyho, have to tried the Windows program TelNet to check your port 30003 output? You can view the output from port 30003 using this program. Under WindowsXP this can be found on the \WINDOWS\system32 directory. Though as AirNav Support suggests above, reboot first and have nothing else running other than RadarBox and TelNet. Once you have started TelNet type in "open localhost 30003" at the prompt (without the quotes). After a while you should see messages like this...

MSG,3,0,0,400EFD,0,2009/02/20,11:31:58.109,2009/02/20,11:36:58.109,EZY9RA,32875,396,328,54.3889,-2.5191,-1024,6033,0,0,0,0 MSG,3,0,0,4006B9,0,2009/02/20,11:31:58.109,2009/02/20,11:36:58.109,TCX652K,12900,333,264,53.6832,-2.3085,2048,1160,0,0,0,0 MSG,3,0,0,400A14,0,2009/02/20,11:31:58.109,2009/02/20,11:36:58.109,EZY10XH,39000,391,324,52.9354,-1.4900,2240,5430,0,0,0,0

that will tell you at least that RadarBox is outputing something to port 30003.

[OKC-Steve]

Open a DOS window and type:

netstat -an -p tcp

This will show which TCP ports are in use.

[Tallyho]

Thanks I'll try that later when I am home and let you know.
All signs at the moment are that nothing is coming out of 30003 though :o(

[Tallyho]

As I suspected on RB start up I get ...
  TCP    0.0.0.0:30003          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING

Then when I fire up SBSPLOTTER I get the connections established between the two apps
  TCP    0.0.0.0:30003            0.0.0.0:0                  LISTENING
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1721          127.0.0.1:30003        ESTABLISHED
  TCP    127.0.0.1:30003        127.0.0.1:1721          ESTABLISHED
but no output in SBSPLOTTER, so in my mind this points to RB not outputting anything on 30003.
No other entries for port 30003.

Same results when I stop SBSPLOTTER and start PLANEPLOTTER.

  TCP    0.0.0.0:30003          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING

Then fire up PLANEPLOTTER and I get but no local plots showing...
  TCP    0.0.0.0:30003            0.0.0.0:0                  LISTENING
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1864          127.0.0.1:30003        ESTABLISHED
  TCP    127.0.0.1:30003        127.0.0.1:1864          ESTABLISHED

It would all point to a problem with RB and output on port 30003

AirNav Support any ideas?

[DaveReid]

Then when I fire up SBSPLOTTER I get the connections established between the two apps
  TCP    0.0.0.0:30003            0.0.0.0:0                  LISTENING
  TCP    127.0.0.1:1721          127.0.0.1:30003        ESTABLISHED
  TCP    127.0.0.1:30003        127.0.0.1:1721          ESTABLISHED
but no output in SBSPLOTTER, so in my mind this points to RB not outputting anything on 30003.

That's exactly what I would expect. 

You need to wait for 5 minutes after RB has started before the delayed socket messages start to be output.

[Fenris]

You need to wait for 5 minutes after RB has started before the delayed socket messages start to be output.

Er, on v2.01? Thought it isn't delayed.

[juangelb]

Hi People....

Well, at least here, in just starting RB and telneting localhost 30003 the data came inmediatelly.....

A lotta MSG, 3 bla , bla

I do not nedd to wait for the 5 mins.

Cheers

[Tallyho]

Ok I definatley have a problem with RB as you can see from this screen shot I have a number of local aircraft plotting but the output to port 30003 is about one entry a minute if I am lucky. See port 30003 times in the Telnet window.
Also all entries appear to be MSG,1, not MSG,3, as others have stated!
I'm at a loss, is my box buggered ?

Any ideas?
www.thehangar.co.uk/downloads/screenshot.jpg

Any suggestions welcome, the main reason I paid out was to get access to local data!
Keith

[AirNav Support]

Just to clarify RadarBox the hardware has nothing to do with port data appearing or not as such.

The software outputs the ports, nothing should affect the ports unless either you have setup firewalls to block the ports or either software hacking or the software is corrupted.

I would suggest a reinstall. We don't have any other ideas after that I am afraid.

[Tallyho]

I have reinstalled RB2009 with the latest download from your website but still no joy.
The only thing I can think of that I have installed recently is .Net Framework 3.5SP1 can you confirm that you are not aware of any issues with this and RB2009.
PS - I have just noticed that pressing the Polar Plotter Icon just blanks the screen
thanks
Keith

[Fenris]

The .NET service pack has not broken RB on my Vista Home Premium, and Squawkbox works on port 30003 too.

[tarbat]

Just one thought.  You're not running an SBS-1 as well by any chance.  That output MSG types 1.