Re: TCP Broadcast

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 05/10/04 

Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 22:18:10 -0400

In article <c7mmia$rur$1@au-nws-0001.flow.com.au>, user@domain.invalid
wrote:

> I am writing an application using TCP sockets, I don't know the IP
> address of the server and am thinking of using a broadcast to find it.
>
> I am using these examples as a test.
> http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/net/examples/server.c
> http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/net/examples/client.c
>
> How do you modify these so the client will do a broadcast.
> I had a guess at using use SO_BROADCAST in programs but it doesn't
> appear to change anything.

Read the "Broadcasting" chapter of "Unix Network Programming, Vol.1" 

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