When making installations, I find its common that the IP addresses of the machines have to change when they are moved from the dev setting to the final installation. Or sometimes DHCP servers fail, etc. Currently, I'm using udpsend/udpreceive and the broadcast address 255.255.255.255 so that it'll work with any IP range, including the self-assigned one. I ran into a problem with that because it seemed that on Mac OS X with two active network interfaces, the messages sent to 255.255.255.255 only went out on one network interface.
To get around this, I think having a multicast send/receive would work quite well. MaxMSP has maxhole which is basically that, and I've heard its quite commonly used. Any chance of one of you Pd networking people (Martin, IOhannes, Ico?) or someone else also finding this useful and making it? :-D
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