On 20/12/2012, at 8:31 AM, Mike Kerner <mikeker...@roadrunner.com> wrote:
> I'm just thinking out loud at this point because I'm not messing with code > this very moment to try it. > > The teacher wouldn't have to share their IP, necessarily. The students' > app will know the ip address and could then fairly quickly send requests on > all addresses in that range (1-255) until they get the response from the > teacher's app, because the teacher's app will also know what address was > assigned to its device. The teacher's app would respond with its address > and the students' app would now know the address. This is where blocking > could be a problem, because if the students have to sit and wait on every > single address for a response, the app is going to crawl. bonjour does all this for you and is highly likely to be more robust than anything else we could come up with... -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding - software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
