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UDP Broadcast

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From: Adam Griffin
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:00
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I need to broadcast a udp packet across my lan.  I get an invalid ip address 
error when trying to with INADDR_ANY.  I can successfully call sendto if I 
specify an ip address.  Below is the code I have written.

  WSADATA wsaData;
  SOCKET s;
  sockaddr_in addr;

  WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,0), &wsaData);
  s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM,IPPROTO_UDP);
  if (s==INVALID_SOCKET) {throw AnsiString("");}

  addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
  addr.sin_port = htons(ToPort->Text.ToInt());
  addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);

  int rc = bind(s,(SOCKADDR*)&addr,sizeof(SOCKADDR_IN));
  if (rc==SOCKET_ERROR) {throw AnsiString("Bind Error: 
"+AnsiString(WSAGetLastError()));}

  int ret = sendto(s,pkt,len,0,(SOCKADDR*)&addr,sizeof(addr));
  if (ret == SOCKET_ERROR) {
    throw AnsiString("Send Error: "+AnsiString(WSAGetLastError()));
  }
  closesocket(s);
  WSACleanup();

Thanks for any help,
atg 
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