On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 20:19:14 UTC, TheFlyingFiddle
wrote:
I'm setting up a simple local network enabling me to connect
phones to the computer through the local wi-fi. The simplest
way i could think of to make this work without relying on an
external server was to simply broadcast the ip and port to all
machines in the network.(Btw by server i mean my / my project
groups windows boxes).
So well the problem is that i need a way for the phones to find
running servers on the LAN.
I think it is close to impossible to do in portable way. Most
reliable approach is to get list of all configured network
interfaces via posix functions (or via `system` call as least
resort), filter out "lo" and broadcast message for every such
interface. I think you can also filter only wireless interfaces
that way relatively easily too.
