On 28/10/2016 01:58, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Armed with that I just attempt a TCP connection to each device in turn,
looking for a specific reply.  When I get what I expect, I know I've
reached my app on the other machine.  Takes less than a second to scan
the network.

Note that more advanced organisational networks' self-protection logic will (correctly) interpret this as a port scan and will automatically turn off your connection.

You really do need Zeroconf/Bonjour/Avahi/mDNS/etc. support...

                                                Peter

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Dr Peter Brett <[email protected]>
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