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Article #7426Broadcasting on a socket
From: Carl Alex Friis Nielsen
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 01:00
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 01:00
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I am currently trying to familiarize myself with the socket-mechanism in SunOS 4.1.1. I have written small programs wich send and receive datagrams via sockets, wich work fine; but now I want to broadcast. I have tried to do this by modifying a program wich sends a packet to a given socket on a given host. First I create a datagram-socket, wich I allow to broadcast with setsocopt. Then I build an address with family:= AF_INET, s_addr:= INADDR_BROADCAST and the port I want to send to. Finaly I try to broadcast a packet. I have another program running, which just listens at a known socket; which works fine when a packet is send to it explicitly. When i try the broadcasting program nothing appears to be happening. I would appreciate it a lot if someone would tell me how to do it/what I am doing wrong. A simple programming example would be werry helpfull. Thanks in advance. Carl Alex Friis Nielsen EMAIL: cnielsen@imada.dk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brtph3!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: cnielsen@imada.dk (Carl Alex Friis Nielsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Broadcasting on a socket Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <2464@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 17 Apr 91 01:00:00 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 20 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Original-Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1991 13:49:36 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 81, message 3 X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu