On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:22:07PM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> Nicolas Williams writes:
> > What if the software uses only "connected" UDP sockets?  Will UDP
> > datagrams sent to that port by nodes which are not the remote side of a
> > connected UDP socket elicit an ICMP?
> 
> How are you going to use a "connected" UDP socket when the point of
> this project is to _discover_ nodes on the network, and thus the
> daemon doesn't already know what addresses those nodes have and cannot
> formulate a viable connect() call?

Unicast to every node on the subnet, rather than broadcast and listen.

But of course, if you'll do that then you'll have a connected socket to
every address on the subnet, at least during queries, which makes this
pointless.

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