On 18 August 2011 18:44, Ruud van Gaal <[email protected]> wrote: > 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... ;-) > Multicasting is an IPv6 feature. The broadcast addresses you use would not work over the internet and may also be blocked by some routers if passed from a subnet to a larger LAN.
Try the following link to see what a multicast address looks like: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-multicast-addresses/ipv6-multicast-addresses.xml There's some information about IPv6 multicasting here: http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_IPv6MulticastandAnycastAddressing.htm _______________________________________________ ENet-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cubik.org/mailman/listinfo/enet-discuss
