UDP VC++ Echo problem in server program

From:
"alijsyed" <alijsyed@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
8 Jun 2006 18:09:00 -0700
Message-ID:
<1149815340.495345.73330@f6g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
Hi:
I have a UDP server program where all I want to do is broadcast out a
universal message on 192.168.0.255 (if 255 is a universal broadcast ->
255.255.255.0 will not work b\c my router will stop it).

I keep getting back my echo (12345678) instead of the client response
(23456789).

Please help. code follows:(BUFFER is defined as 8)

**********************************************
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    WSADATA w; /* Used to open windows connection */
    unsigned short port_number; /* Port number to use */
    int a1, a2, a3, a4; /* Components of address in xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
form */
    int client_length; /* Length of client struct */
    int bytes_received; /* Bytes received from client */
    SOCKET sd; /* Socket descriptor of server */
    struct sockaddr_in client; /* Information about the client */
    char buffer[BUFFER_SIZE]; /* Where to store received data */
    struct hostent *hp; /* Information about this computer */
    char host_name[256]; /* Name of the server */
    char sendBuffer[8];
    unsigned char universalByte = 255;
    int iExit=0;

    /* Interpret command line */
    if (argc == 2)
    {
        /* Use local address */
        if (sscanf(argv[1], "%u", &port_number) != 1)
        {
            usage();
        }
    }
    else if (argc == 3)
    {
        /* Copy address */
        if (sscanf(argv[1], "%d.%d.%d.%d", &a1, &a2, &a3, &a4) != 4)
        {
            usage();
        }
        if (sscanf(argv[2], "%u", &port_number) != 1)
        {
            usage();
        }
    }
    else
    {
        usage();
    }

    /* Open windows connection */
    if (WSAStartup(0x0101, &w) != 0)
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "Could not open Windows connection.\n");
        exit(0);
    }

    /* Open a datagram socket */
    sd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
    if (sd == INVALID_SOCKET)
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "Could not create socket.\n");
        WSACleanup();
        exit(0);
    }

    /* Clear out server struct */
    memset((void *)&client, '\0', sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));

    printf("Press CTRL + C to quit\n");

    /* Set family and port */
    client.sin_family = AF_INET;
    client.sin_port = htons(port_number);

    /* Bind address to socket */
    if (bind(sd, (struct sockaddr *)&client, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in))
== -1)
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "Could not bind name to socket.\n");
        closesocket(sd);
        WSACleanup();
        exit(0);
    }

    /* Get host name of this computer */
    gethostname(host_name, sizeof(host_name));
    hp = gethostbyname(host_name);

    /* Check for NULL pointer */
    if (hp == NULL)
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "Could not get host name.\n");
        closesocket(sd);
        WSACleanup();
        exit(0);
    }

    /* Print out server information */
    printf("Server running on %u.%u.%u.%u\n", (unsigned
char)hp->h_addr_list[0][0],
                                              (unsigned char)hp->h_addr_list[0][1],
                                              (unsigned char)hp->h_addr_list[0][2],
                                              (unsigned char)hp->h_addr_list[0][3]);

    universalByte=192;
    client.sin_addr.S_un.S_un_b.s_b1 = universalByte;
    universalByte=168;
    client.sin_addr.S_un.S_un_b.s_b2 = universalByte;
    universalByte=0;
    client.sin_addr.S_un.S_un_b.s_b3 = universalByte;
    universalByte=255;
    client.sin_addr.S_un.S_un_b.s_b4 = universalByte;
    /* Loop and get data from clients */

    while (iExit==0)
    {
        client_length = (int)sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);

        strcpy(sendBuffer,"12345678");
        /* Send data back */
        if (sendto(sd, (char *)sendBuffer, (int)sizeof(sendBuffer), 0,
(struct sockaddr *)&client, client_length) != (int)sizeof(sendBuffer))
        {
            fprintf(stderr, "Error sending datagram.\n");
        }
        else
        {
            /* Receive bytes from client */
            bytes_received = recvfrom(sd, buffer, BUFFER_SIZE, 0, (struct
sockaddr *)&client, &client_length);
            if (bytes_received < 0)
            {
                fprintf(stderr, "Could not receive datagram.\n");
            }
            else
            {
                fprintf(stderr, "Made contact with a client: %s \n",buffer);
                printf("Client running on %u.%u.%u.%u\n", (unsigned
char)client.sin_addr.S_un.S_un_b.s_b1,
                                                          (unsigned char)client.sin_addr.S_un.S_un_b.s_b2,
                                                          (unsigned char)client.sin_addr.S_un.S_un_b.s_b3,
                                                          (unsigned char)client.sin_addr.S_un.S_un_b.s_b4);
                iExit=1;
            }
        }
    }
    closesocket(sd);
    WSACleanup();

    return 0;
}

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