UDP socket: Operation not supported

Hi,
I'm having trouble creating a basic UDP listen socket. Should be easy...

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use POSIX;              
use IO::Socket;         
use IO::Select;         
use strict;

    my (
        $listen_socket, # socket to listen on
        $socket_errmsg  # error msg if socket not created
        );

    $listen_socket = IO::Socket::INET->new( LocalAddr =>'a.b.c.d',
                                            LocalPort => 7172,
                                            Proto => 'udp',
                                            Listen => 5,
                                            Reuse => 1 )
               or $socket_errmsg =
                       "Can't make server listen socket : $@\n";

    if( !$listen_socket )
    {
        print $socket_errmsg."\n";
    }
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and the response is:
Can't make server listen socket : IO::Socket::INET: Operation not supported
Any ideas?
Cheers
Chris

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Re: UDP socket: Operation not supported by edan (Curate) on Dec 20, 2004 at 07:38 UTC
You can't "Listen" on UDP sockets, only TCP, since UDP is a connectionless protocol - it's a message-passing protocol. If you drop the "Listen" parameter to the `new()`, you'll find that you'll be able to create the socket. You'll then want to call `$sock->recv()` (with the appropriate arguments), which will block until you receive a message... HTH -- edan	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: UDP socket: Operation not supported by chrism01 (Friar) on Dec 21, 2004 at 01:58 UTC
Thx: worked a treat on my RH FC3, but tgt is FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2, which came up with: Can't make server listen socket : IO::Socket::INET: Can't assign requested address any ideas?	[reply]
Re^3: UDP socket: Operation not supported by edan (Curate) on Dec 21, 2004 at 07:56 UTC
This doesn't have anything to do with the operating system. It means you are trying to bind to a local IP address that isn't found on any interface on the host. Did you change the `LocalAddr => 'a.b.c.d'` [download] argument to an appropriate local address on the FreeBSD box, or are you trying to bind to the address on the RH box? Do you really care which address you bind to locally? You could just leave this argument out to bind to '`*`' - that would make life easier... -- edan	[reply] [d/l]


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