SDL_net and broadcast

SDL Development
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Hello all,

I’m looking for a way to detect players on a LAN, and it seems that
broacast is the way to go. But SDL_net do not support it.
I want to know if support is planned ? or any hints on how to add it ?

Gautier - tlk.fr

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Gautier Portet escribi?:

Hello all,

I’m looking for a way to detect players on a LAN, and it seems that
broacast is the way to go. But SDL_net do not support it.
I want to know if support is planned ? or any hints on how to add it ?

You can try to use sockets directly, but sending packets to a broadcast address
is a privileged operation on many systems (not in Linux, thought).

If still interested, you can take a look at:
man 2 socket (for opening a socket)
man ip (for general information about raw sockets)
man setsockopt (for setting broadcast mask to the socket)

Please remember sending too much broadcast packets throught a network can
easily drop the network down.

Regards,
Wizord.