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Allow UDP broadcasts #97
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So the problem is broadcasts are an IPv4 subnet thing. This concept is entirely gone from IPv6, where they have something called "anycast" addresses, but it requires configuring entire groups of computers to use it...it's not like IPv4 where you just send a packet to the .255 address and things that care listen for it. |
Oh, I was not aware of this. Ig I will have to find a better solution for server discovery. Anyways, thank you for answering. You can close the issue if you want. |
So Wikipedia has this to say:
...so maybe this is doable? I'll leave this open for now until I research more. |
Found an multicast example that seems to work for me. |
SDL2_net had a way to enable or disable UDP broadcasts
SDL_net/src/SDLnetUDP.c
Line 185 in 8e1e4bf
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