Hi-Five to the First Person to.... (Simconnect Question)

[Bman2010]

....help me with a small issue. I have been running simconnect like a champ for several applications - PlanG, FSMap, FSeconomy. Here is my issue..

If I close or (crash) FSX for any particular reason, my simconnect ports are locked / blocked which doesn't allow the applications noted above to reconnect. I can however, reboot the FSX machine (and not the remote machine) and presto... all connects right back up.

I have no idea why it does this or what causes these ports to remain shut down when FSX is restarted.

Does any one have suggestions on what to try to reopen these ports on the FSX machine without a reboot of the FSX machine? I have tried the usual suspects - firewall off / A/V off etc...

For fun, here is my simconnect.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<SimBase.Document Type="SimConnect" version="1,0">
<Descr>SimConnect</Descr>
<Filename>SimConnect.xml</Filename>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<SimConnect.Comm>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<Protocol>IPv4</Protocol>
<Scope>global</Scope>
<Address>192.168.1.50</Address>
<Port>4507</Port>
<MaxClients>64</MaxClients>
<MaxRecvSize>4096</MaxRecvSize>
<DisableNagle>False</DisableNagle>
</SimConnect.Comm>

<SimConnect.Comm>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<Protocol>IPv4</Protocol>
<Scope>global</Scope>
<Address>192.168.1.50</Address>
<Port>500</Port>
<MaxClients>64</MaxClients>
<MaxRecvSize>4096</MaxRecvSize>
<DisableNagle>False</DisableNagle>
</SimConnect.Comm>

<SimConnect.Comm>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<Protocol>IPv4</Protocol>
<Scope>global</Scope>
<Address>192.168.1.50</Address>
<Port>6700</Port>
<MaxClients>64</MaxClients>
<MaxRecvSize>4096</MaxRecvSize>
<DisableNagle>False</DisableNagle>
</SimConnect.Comm>

<SimConnect.Comm>
<Disabled>True</Disabled>
<Protocol>IPv4</Protocol>
<Scope>local</Scope>
<MaxClients>64</MaxClients>
<Address>127.0.0.1</Address>
<Port>0</Port>
</SimConnect.Comm>
</SimBase.Document>


Perhaps something to do with the router security settings? Thomas, I know that we have briefly talked about this. I just want to make a new thread in the event others have had this issue or found a work around.

All suggestions welcome!

Thanks a lot in advance-

Benjamin.