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>at 08/01/2001 04:15 PM
>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?
I've never tried multicasting myself, but a UDP example can be found at...
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlipc.html#Interactive%20Client%20with%20IO%3a%3aSocket
Grant Hopwood.
Valero Energy Corp.
(210)370-2380
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