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From: eloranta@tukki.jyu.fi (Jussi Eloranta)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Broadcasts on SunOS 4.0(.1)
Message-ID: <428@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 9 Feb 89 06:26:07 GMT
Reply-To: eloranta@tukki.jyu.fi (Jussi Eloranta)
Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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I've couple of questions about broadcasts on sunos 4.0(.1):

1) What should I do to send a broadcast message (udp, guess it's not possible
with tcp..)? Just use a broadcast address (something like x.x.x.255) in
structure sockaddr_in and use recvfrom and sendto calls to send/receive data?
Well, if this is the way it should work then:

2) Does it require root privs? (I remeber that I read from somewhere that
'older' (= bsd 4.2) systems require root privs? 

3) When all else fails.. does someone have a short example that uses
broadcasts?

Jussi Eloranta
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