Re: UDP Broadcast self send
Re: UDP Broadcast self send
- Subject: Re: UDP Broadcast self send
- From: email@hidden (Hado Hein)
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:11:48 +0200
- Organization: handmade !
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Hi.
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I have an app that has a Windows counterpart that it needs to
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communicate with. Both apps broadcast UDP packets. The difference is
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that the Windows version receives the packets it sends, whereas the Mac
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version does not. It is fairly important that the apps behave
Well, I'm surely no expert, but receiving packets you sent _is_ a
failure in your IP stack, definitely, always. (Unless you send to
127.0.0.1 / 255.255.255.256)
You might double send packets if you need a local copy or build a some
bridging within your code.
--
Hado Hein, Berlin, Fed.Rep. of Germany
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