On 23-8-2013 14:32, lightai...@gmail.com wrote: > I want to send a broadcast packet to all the computers connected to my home > router. > > The following 2 lines of code do not work; > host="192.168.0.102" > s.connect((host, port)) > > Can someone advise? > > Thank you. >
Use UDP (datagram) sockets. Use sendto() and not connect(), because UDP is connectionless. This should work: import socket sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_BROADCAST, 1) sock.sendto(b"thedata", 0, ("<broadcast>", 9999)) # 9999 = port sock.close() Irmen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list