[PD] netsend (UDP): cannot connect to 255.255.255.255

[Andy Farnell]

Broadcast addresses were disabled in [netsend], quite a 
while ago IIRC. 




On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:09:20 +0200
Matteo Sisti Sette <matteosistisette at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In Windows, I've always used "connect 255.255.255.255 (someport)" with a 
> [netsend 1] to broadcast packets to the whole local network to a given port.
> 
> Any [netreceive (someport) 1] on the same network and/or the same 
> machine could receive all packets sent with the netsend above.
> 
> However, I am trying this in Linux (ubuntu) now and it doesn't work.
> 
> The [netsend 1] object won't even connect (the outlet doesn't output a 
> 1) but it won't complain either: it says "connecting to port 5555" but 
> doesn't print any error message when failing to connect.
> It does print error messages ("netsend: not connected") when trying to 
> send messages.
> 
> I know I can use the specific address of the network, e.g. 
> 192.168.1.255, but this won't work if I use the patch on a network with 
> a different address other than 192.168.1.XXX
> 
> Why doesn't 255.255.255.255 work and is there a workaround?
> 
> thanks
> m.
> 
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Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk>