> Sounds interesting. We don't have any DHCP support yet. Most protocol
> stack is built upon MINA (a network application framework). MINA currently
> supports only NIO transport (which doesn't support multicast). You'll have
> to implement BIO (old socket I/O) support for MINA and then build DHCP
> protocol on top of MINA. Then integrating protocol with ApacheDS will be
> great.
To send broadcast or multicast packets in NIO:
aDatagramChannel.socket().setBroadcast(true) ; // set broadcast flag
aDatagramChannel.send(aByteBuffer, new
InetSocketAddress("255.255.255.255", PORT) ;
On Linux system, without default router, sending broadcast packets
throw "Network is unreachable" exception. This apply to BIO too. The
broadcast messages sending only on interface that have default router.
May I put multicast or broadcast address to MINA via
Session.setAttribute(..) method?
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Evgeniy Sinev
