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From: zahra@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Andrew Zahra Telecom)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: broadcast sockets
Keywords: socket
Message-ID: <6746@wolfen.cc.uow.oz>
Date: 18 Jan 91 06:22:05 GMT
Organization: Uni of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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I am trying to write a program which will be able to broadcast messages to all
other machines on the local network. I am using a datagram socket and have not 
had much success with various combinations of setting socket options 
(SO_BROADCAST) and doing a connect to INADDR_BROADCAST. I either get a network
unreachable error or an error from the bind indicating it can't allocate the
requested address.

If anyone has a minimal code example of how to do this it would be very welcome
and may stop me tearing my hair out.

	Thanks in advance,
			Andrew


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