udp broadcast

[Tom Vogt]

alanr@bell-labs.com wrote:
> It was my intent in designing the heartbeat framework, that it should be
> fairly straightforward to integrate your code into the framework in
> which I had implemented serial heartbeats.
> 
> It seemed to me from your previous mail that you weren't planning on
> doing that.  Is there something wrong with the design that would make
> this difficult, illogical, or unreasonable to do?  If you make your code
> available via GNU GPL, I'll integrate it if you like.

I'd like to have something simple running on its own before I think
about integrating it into something larger. also, for my diploma work, I
need a standalone solution.


em... can anyone tell me how I listen on the broadcast address without a
need for root priviledges? is that possible? if not, what's the
recommended solution?



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Tom Vogt

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