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> This may be a stupid question, or possibly one not even dealing with perl.
> But can anyone point me to a way to make a UDP broadcast server?
>
> I mean a true broadcast, or a "one to many" transmission. Is there a
> special flag to pass to IO::Socket to make packets replicate across the
> network? I've built a UDP server, and I can talk to one client just fine,
> that was fine for the client (listener) development, but now I want to have
> multiple clients listening, and just one server sending to all of them.
> Can this be done? what stupid, simple thing am I missing?
Haven't played with broadcasting in Perl, but try experimenting with:
setsockopt to SO_BROADCAST
and the addr INADDR_BROADCAST (which should be equiv to inet_aton('255.255.255.255')).
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