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Re: How Do I Do an IP Broadcast in Perl?

by bingos (Vicar)
on Sep 26, 2010 at 18:52 UTC ( [id://862111]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How Do I Do an IP Broadcast in Perl?

You cannot broadcast using TCP. You will have to use UDP

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Re^2: How Do I Do an IP Broadcast in Perl?
by HalNineThousand (Beadle) on Sep 26, 2010 at 19:21 UTC

    I changed the protocol to UDP in the broadcast program and it ran and didn't give me an error or anything. But then when I changed the protocol on the listener to UDP, it kept crashing. I removed the "Listen => 1" and it would run but do nothing.

    Here's the code for the listener:

    use IO::Socket; my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET ( LocalHost => '172.16.7.101', LocalPort => '7070', Proto => 'udp', # Listen => 1, Reuse => 1, 8 ); die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock; my $new_sock = $sock->accept(); while(<$new_sock>) { print $_; } close($sock);

    So I take it I need to change something to be able to listen on a UDP socket?

      Sockets are bi-directional, so they can all listen for packets. "Listen" tells IO::Socket to listen for incoming connections. UDP is connection-less, so Listen is never used with UDP.

      You have a stray "8" in your argument list.

      Okay, I did more searching and found examples that did not specify the local IP address for the socket using UDP. I removed "LocalHost => '172.16.7.101'" and now it's working fine. I've even tested it with several boxes listening and they all got the same message, so I know it's actually broadcasting.

      Thanks for the help!

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