server stuck at socket.accept()

Question

I am trying to establish the connection between my pc (windows11) and rpi 4 (buster v10). I have set rpi as an access point so that it has a fixed ip address, for example, 192.168.20.1 and connected my pc to it. I wrote a script to test socket communcation:

import socket, pickle, sys

class RPiClient:
  def __init__(self, host, port):
      self.host, self.port = host, port
      self.socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

  def connect(self):
      self.socket.connect((self.host, self.port))

  def send_message(self, obj):
      self.socket.sendall(pickle.dumps(obj))

  def close(self):
      self.socket.close()

class RPiServer:
  def __init__(self, host, port):
      self.host, self.port = host, port
      self.socket = self.socket()
      self.__data = []
      self.conn, self.address = None, None

  def start(self):
      print(f"creating server at {self.host}:{self.port}")
      self.socket.bind((self.host, self.port))
      self.socket.listen()
      self.conn, self.address = self.socket.accept()
  
  def recieve_data(self):
      if not self.conn or not self.address:
        assert 0, f"conn: {self.conn}, address: {self.address}"
      with self.conn:
        while True:
          data = self.conn.recv(1024)
          if nto data:
              break
          self.__data.append(data)
      return pickle.loads(b' '.join(self.__data))

  def close(self):
      print("Closing server")
      self.socket.close()

def main():
  server = RPiServer("192.168.20.1", 4160)
  print("waiting for pc connection...")
  try:
      server.start()
  except Exception as e:
      print(e)
      server.close()
      sys.exit(1)
  print("success connection")
  host = server.address[0]

  ...

The output is as follows:

waiting for pc connection...
creating server at 192.168.20.1:4160
sever start listening for connection...

The program is stuck here due to socket.accept(). I have checked in my pc that the connection state to rpi is SYN_SENT, while rpi state is LISTENING without receiving any SYN attempt. I have also done the following steps:

1. Check firewall rules

My rpi allows all connections and has no restrictions.

2. Ping rpi and pc ip

I tried to ping 192.168.20.1 on my pc and also ping 192.168.20.13 (my pc ip) on rpi, both of them can ping each other successfully.

3. Reboot rpi

Still do not work. I also try to connect different device to rpi, the socket connection is still failed.

It seems that the server, i.e., rpi cannot find client. Is it caused by port that I set as 4160? I use netstat -ano to check port on my pc and only found that connections to rpi via port 22 and 445 are established.

Answer 1

As goldilocks has suggested you are not creating the socket correctly.
As a matter of coding style it is less error prone to use distinct names e.g. I use lsock to hold local socket.
I didn't try your code but the following is a fragment I use to create a socket server:-

# host = "127.0.0.1"  # This is the standard loopback interface address (localhost)
host = ""  # accept connections on all available IPv4 interfaces
port = 31425  # Defines the port to listen on

lsock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)   # create a TCP socket
lsock.bind((host, port))
lsock.listen()
print(f"Listening on {(host, port)}")