On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 01:54 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
> On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 12:00 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> A lot of software packages scan the local network to see if other >> copies of >> the software may be running with the same serial number. >> >> I've thought of many ways to accomplish this, but all of them >> seem slow and >> inefficient. > > Here is an idea. Invert the idea of scanning. Each copy UDP > Broadcasts its serial number at startup and every minute or so to > a obscure port of your choosing, eg. 255.255.255.255:47011. Each > copy also listens on that port. If a serial number comes in from > a different computer that matches that of the listening copy, > there's a serial number clash. My tinkering with Revolution has gotten to UDP. I have been able get UDP working, so I think the above can be done in Revolution. However, I don't have a way to get the local IP, yet. (Receiving UDP is weird; at least it is the way I did it.) Dar Scott _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution