I'm using address 255.255.255.255 for broadcasting Wake-On-LAN packets though, isn't that multicast? Also, I've briefly used the range 224.0.0.0-239.255.255.255 for multicasting, which might be similar, although I'd refer to Google for better tutorials... ;-)
Ruud On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Lee Salzman <[email protected]> wrote: > It does not use multicast, no. > > > On 08/18/2011 07:05 PM, Paul Voigtlaender wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> first I must say that I'm quite new to networking. >> But I read about multicast, which makes it possible to send to a lot of >> clients with only 1 time banwidth usage, sounds very good. >> >> I saw that enet offers a broadcast function. >> >> I read some of the enet sourcecode and found this in the >> enet_host_broadcast function: >> >> for (currentPeer = host -> peers; >> currentPeer< & host -> peers [host -> peerCount]; >> ++ currentPeer) >> { >> if (currentPeer -> state != ENET_PEER_STATE_CONNECTED) >> continue; >> >> enet_peer_send (currentPeer, channelID, packet); >> } >> >> This looks for me as if enet is not using multicast. >> Is that right, or am I overlooking something? >> If it is true, why it is not used? >> >> Thanks for your answers. >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > ENet-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.cubik.org/**mailman/listinfo/enet-discuss<http://lists.cubik.org/mailman/listinfo/enet-discuss> >
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