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How to use broadcast/multicast to replace zeroconf
I'm working on a project that has server and client roles. I would like to have servers and clients automatically detecting each other. At a first glance, zeroconf seems to be the best solution. But ...
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Multicast DNS problems
Feeling a bit lost after many days of relentless digging and looking for inspiration...
The story so far:-
I have a Microchip PIC32-based wifi-dev board running TCP/IP stack v5.36.
After boot-up, ...
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iOS mDNS service with non-standard type
In our iOS app we are creating mDNS/Bonjur service via CFNetServiceCreate. All is fine when service type is one of the standard types (like _http._tcp)
But we need to advertize our service with non-...
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Multicast Problems with Java and Zeroconf (avahi) on Linux
I am trying to develop a Java-based solution for VM's that start without knowing what static IP address they should self-select from a list. My idea for the solution was:
Use Zeroconf/avahi to ...
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Fail to open a socket for multicast
I have problems to open an multicast socket in Erlang to receive messages:
88> gen_udp:open(5353,[{reuseaddr, true}, {ip,{224,0,0,251}},{multicast_ttl,4},{multicast_loop,false},binary]).
{error,...
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How to send multicast messages and reuse a port in Erlang?
I have gotten a good start on my program, my first REAL Erlang program.
I have it listening for messages, reading them and parsing them. I also have it sending them.
The one little thing that is ...
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What's the best way to locate devices on a network?
I'm building software for a company that sells hardware devices. They want the software to be able to locate all devices on the network without restricting either of their IPs.
What's the best way to ...
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