Flock of Birds

[Elittdogg]

I'm not sure I understand the port number. I have a total of 6 birds. Only bird #1 is plugged into this computer (the others are connected directly to another computer); however, I am nonetheless able to collected pos/ori data from all birds. So would I just declare the port to be bird 1? Like PORT_FOB = 1?

All 6 birds cannot be connected to the necessary computer (which is why only bird 1 (i'm assuming the master bird) is connected and everything else runs through that).

Does that make any sense?

What does port number mean? Can you explain it me (sorry I'm ignorant)? I checked online and they talked about 16 digit port numbers for internet connections, but somehow I don't think that's what I'm looking for here. How would I determine what port number the flock is connected on?