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> broadcasting on 255.255.255.255 (...) I think it worked until we moved from hubs to switches ;) Should work fine on switched network (like DHCP) ? - but won'
by e12e 3y ago
> broadcasting on 255.255.255.255 (...) I think it worked until we moved from hubs to switches ;)
Should work fine on switched network (like DHCP) ? - but won't cross subnets.
Ed: maybe some of you moved to wireless - and some stayed on a different cabled subnet?
- conradfr 3y agoYou may be right, the details are quite fuzzy ;) I don't even understand the network code all that much (actually written by a friend) but it does use INADDR_ANY, INADDR_BROADCAST and SO_BROADCAST. edit: Tried it on two old Windows 7 computers on my mixed rj45 / wifi home network and some chat data are received by the other party and some don't, or it crashes. Fun. edit2: Actually works great on a version where I could set a specific broadcast address like 192.168.1.255.