Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/12/11/21:38:35
OK I didnt mean connecting in the socket API sense.....erm but when bind
takes place an error is given. I specified 127.255.255.255 and even
INADDR_BROADCAST......still same error.
Even tried some demo files from socket book. #
All ok with Linux.
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 03:21:13AM +0000, Kay M wrote:
>I have written a client program that connects to the local broadcast
>address and reads datagrams that are produced by a server. It works on my
>linux (no internet) machine. But on my PC under CYGWIN the binding of the
>socket to the Broadcast Address give an error EADDRNOAVAIL.
You're getting the error from the underlying WinSock DLL. I don't
understand what you're doing, though. If the server is sending
UDP broadcast messages on your subnet, where do you `connect'???
With UDP you just call readfrom() and wait for a package. There's
nothing you could connect to or listen on. And the subnet's
broadcast address isn't a legal address for a machine anyway.
Corinna
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