Re: broadcasting over extended network (AppleTalk)
Re: broadcasting over extended network (AppleTalk)
- Subject: Re: broadcasting over extended network (AppleTalk)
- From: Michael Swan <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:30:09 -0800
At 9:20 AM -0800 2/12/02, Rich Kubota wrote:
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At 7:15 PM -0500 2/11/02, Anders Pytte wrote:
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>Is there any way to easily do this?
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>If I could get a list of the local networks (not zones) in the extended network, represented as "network numbers", I could easily perform a DDP broadcast on each local network.
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>But i see no way to get this list. I can get a list of zones but they do not map to local networks.
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There is no API to obtain the network numbers that I'm aware of. If you could hook into the RTMP listener, this would be possible since the RTMP packets include a listing of the network numbers. However, there is no API for hooking into the listener.
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The question arises as to why you want to send your own AppleTalk broadcast, instead of doing an NBPLookup?? Using a broadcast assumes that there is some entity that is listening, that could just as well have registered a specific name/type, which NBP Lookup can find.
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rich kubota
Hi,
Actually, you don't need to somehow hijack the RTMP listener. You
can send an RTMP request to the local router asking for the list
of nets. The router will reply, potentially with more than one
packet, based on how many nets are present on your LAN.
Michael Swan
Neon Software, Inc.
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