Csharp/C Sharp/Network/Broadcast
Bad Broadcast
<source lang="csharp"> using System; using System.Net; using System.Net.Sockets; using System.Text; public class BadBroadcast {
public static void Main() { Socket sock = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Dgram, ProtocolType.Udp); IPEndPoint iep = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Broadcast, 9050); byte[] data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("This is a test message"); sock.SendTo(data, iep); sock.Close(); }
}
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Broadcst Sample
<source lang="csharp"> using System; using System.Net; using System.Net.Sockets; using System.Text; public class Broadcst {
public static void Main() { Socket sock = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Dgram, ProtocolType.Udp); IPEndPoint iep1 = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Broadcast, 9050); IPEndPoint iep2 = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Parse("192.168.1.255"), 9050); string hostname = Dns.GetHostName(); byte[] data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(hostname); sock.SetSocketOption(SocketOptionLevel.Socket, SocketOptionName.Broadcast, 1); sock.SendTo(data, iep1); sock.SendTo(data, iep2); sock.Close(); }
}
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Receive Broadcast
<source lang="csharp"> /* C# Network Programming by Richard Blum Publisher: Sybex ISBN: 0782141765
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using System; using System.Net; using System.Net.Sockets; using System.Text; public class RecvBroadcst {
public static void Main() { Socket sock = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Dgram, ProtocolType.Udp); IPEndPoint iep = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Any, 9050); sock.Bind(iep); EndPoint ep = (EndPoint)iep; Console.WriteLine("Ready to receive..."); byte[] data = new byte[1024]; int recv = sock.ReceiveFrom(data, ref ep); string stringData = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(data, 0, recv); Console.WriteLine("received: {0} from: {1}", stringData, ep.ToString()); data = new byte[1024]; recv = sock.ReceiveFrom(data, ref ep); stringData = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(data, 0, recv); Console.WriteLine("received: {0} from: {1}", stringData, ep.ToString()); sock.Close(); }
}
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