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| Barry Margolin 2004-05-10, 5:44 pm |
| In article <c7mmia$rur$1@au-nws-0001.flow.com.au>, user@domain.invalid
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> I am writing an application using TCP sockets, I don't know the IP
> address of the server and am thinking of using a broadcast to find it.
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> I am using these examples as a test.
> http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/...amples/server.c
> http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/...amples/client.c
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> How do you modify these so the client will do a broadcast.
> I had a guess at using use SO_BROADCAST in programs but it doesn't
> appear to change anything.
Read the "Broadcasting" chapter of "Unix Network Programming, Vol.1"
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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| user@domain.invalid 2004-05-10, 5:44 pm |
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Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <c7mmia$rur$1@au-nws-0001.flow.com.au>, user@domain.invalid
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> Read the "Broadcasting" chapter of "Unix Network Programming, Vol.1"
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I Don't have that book! Is there an online source of info.
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| Barry Margolin 2004-05-10, 5:44 pm |
| In article <c7msba$u4a$1@au-nws-0001.flow.com.au>, user@domain.invalid
wrote:
> Barry Margolin wrote:
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> I Don't have that book! Is there an online source of info.
If you're serious about network programming, you really should get that
book. It's a comprehensive source of answers to many questions about
network programming.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
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| user@domain.invalid 2004-05-11, 10:34 pm |
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Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <c7msba$u4a$1@au-nws-0001.flow.com.au>, user@domain.invalid
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> If you're serious about network programming, you really should get that
> book. It's a comprehensive source of answers to many questions about
> network programming.
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I have found the answer, after doing a search and looking though a lot
of WEB pages, I found a hint that I needed to use UDP instead. After
some experiments I got it to work.
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