I may be a bit slow this afternoon but what do you have (what sort of clients and environment) and what do you want to do (have them chat?)?
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: > Folks, I'm just wondering if anyone here has used P2P Networking. Chapter > 45 of the old book Professional C# 4 and .NET 4 > <http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Professional-C-4-0-and-NET-4.productCd-0470502258.html> > devotes 17 pages to the subject, but I won't have time to read it until > bedtime tonight. > > Why I ask is ... I'm looking for a painless way of getting multiple > components of an app suite to freely broadcast messages amongst themselves. > I've used UDP for this before, but it has size limits and you have to deal > with low level things like multiple MAC address and so forth. > > At a glance, P2P looks promising for "free broadcasting", but it seems to > require configuration of the environment for discovery and resolution. > Perhaps there are other techniques I'm not aware of. > > *Greg K* >
