UDP broadcast

ibou has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to write a routing algorithm that would send a UDP broadcast to many computers, but don't know how to write the udp broadcast part, basically I am having a problem with the communication part.

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Re: UDP broadcast by perrin (Chancellor) on May 10, 2002 at 18:12 UTC
Looks like IO::Socket::Multicast would help.	[reply]
Re: Re: UDP broadcast by Anonymous Monk on Mar 25, 2004 at 14:22 UTC
Multicast != Broadcast I've had the same issues. sendto returns an error if you try to send to a broadcast address.	[reply]
Re: UDP broadcast by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on May 10, 2002 at 18:05 UTC
IO::Socket perhaps? And remember... Google is your friend. Who says that programmers can't work in the Marketing Department? Or is that who says that Marketing people can't program?	[reply]