[PD] multicast send/receive?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

When making installations, I find its common that the IP addresses of  
the machines have to change when they are moved from the dev setting  
to the final installation.  Or sometimes DHCP servers fail, etc.   
Currently, I'm using udpsend/udpreceive and the broadcast address  
255.255.255.255 so that it'll work with any IP range, including the  
self-assigned one.  I ran into a problem with that because it seemed  
that on Mac OS X with two active network interfaces, the messages sent  
to 255.255.255.255 only went out on one network interface.

To get around this, I think having a multicast send/receive would work  
quite well.  MaxMSP has maxhole which is basically that, and I've  
heard its quite commonly used.  Any chance of one of you Pd networking  
people (Martin, IOhannes, Ico?) or someone else also finding this  
useful and making it? :-D

.hc


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