Re: UDP Broadcast message when system has more than one network card

From:
"Mark Salsbery [MVP]" <MarkSalsbery[MVP]@newsgroup.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 7 Mar 2008 16:45:58 -0800
Message-ID:
<759B3400-81BB-4B77-859C-661AC6FA30CC@microsoft.com>
"amccombs" <amccombs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A2C4B1F8-28B1-42B0-8DA7-37700E78453E@microsoft.com...

I have an application that broadcast a UDP pack to all devices for reply.
When a system has more than one network card it seems to only broadcast it
only on the first card that was installed in the machine. How do I get it
to
broadcast on all network devices on my system?

I am using,

Create(0, SOCK_DGRAM);
BOOL bMultipleApps = TRUE;
SetSockOpt(SO_REUSEADDR, (void*)&bMultipleApps, sizeof(BOOL), SOL_SOCKET);
SetSockOpt(SO_BROADCAST, (void*)&bMultipleApps, sizeof(BOOL), SOL_SOCKET);

SendTo(pBuffer, nSize, nPort, NULL, MSG_DONTROUTE);


Have you tried using bind() to bind your socket to the address of a specific
adapter (instead of INADDR_ANY)?

GetAdaptersInfo()/GetAdaptersAddresses() can help to enumerate the available
adapters and their associated addresses.

A search on "multihomed host socket" yields a lot of info :)

Mark

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Microsoft MVP - Visual C++

 

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