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Article #4094UDP Broadcast
From: Adam Griffin
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:00
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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