[announce] netdist, was: Re: [PD][announce] maxlib v0.4

[Olaf Matthes]

Damien HENRY schrieb:

> any idea about the netreceive now ;-)

Ok, in line 244 of x_net.c (from pd0.35-test23) add:

outlet_symbol( x->x_connectionip, gensym( inet_ntoa( incomer_address.sin_addr) )
);

and add the outlet in the new function. This will output the IP address of the
netsend/netdist on connection...


Olaf

>
>
> Damien.
>
> Le Vendredi 17 Mai 2002 01:44, Olaf Matthes a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > no problem, check the site again and look for 'netdist' (not yet included
> > in the library). It's a multithreaded netsend that has been modyfied to
> > allow multiple connections in 'dist' style. I hope the multithreading stuff
> > will work under Linux as well...
> >
> > Olaf
> >
> > Damien HENRY schrieb:
> > > > there are two objects, 'dist' and 'remote', which can be used to send
> > > > data to 'receive' objects. 'dist' (or just 'd') allows to use 'connect
> > > > <name>' messages to add names of receive objects to a list (and
> > > > 'disconnect <name>' to remove them).
> > >
> > > I've testing them yet, but the basic idea of thoses too object is just
> > > fantastic !
> > >
> > > I'm looking for the same, but about netsend & netreceive.
> > >
> > > I whant to be able to send from 1 object to an arbitrary number of
> > > netreiceve. In the code of the netsend object (x_net.c )there is a test
> > > to disable the creation of a new socket if there is already a connection.
> > >
> > > if (x->x_fd >= 0)
> > >     {
> > >         error("netsend_connect: already connected");
> > >         return;
> > >     }
> > >
> > >         /* create a socket */
> > >     sockfd = socket(AF_INET, x->x_protocol, 0);
> > >
> > > if I remove this test, is there a chance that it will work without
> > > crashing ?
> > >
> > > Netreceive is already able to receive from diferent sources and even to
> > > tell to how many.
> > > But is there here a socket gourou to give me a clue to do the hack in way
> > > that netreceive will output things like :
> > >
> > > 19.168.1.1 test 1
> > > 19.168.1.3 test 3
> > >
> > > I mean to use the IP addresse of the sender as a selector.
> > > my goal is to diferentiate the data by their sender.
> > >
> > > Thanks to anyone that can help me about it.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Damien.