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Re: udp broadcast: doesn't work in Linuxby fjonckers (Novice) |
on Oct 12, 2001 at 01:27 UTC ( [id://118352]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
ok guys, found it...
The option SO_BROADCAST requests permission to send broadcast datagrams on the socket. Broadcast was a privileged operation in earlier versions of the system. so, I rewrote my snippet: doesn't seem to work with IO::Socket::INET->new thanks for the tips! made me look further than Perl (C, kernel)...
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