1. I get the following printed "Listening on host_port" on my command line after the following executes. Did I do something wrong with the $sock_r->sockport? 
    $sock_r = IO::Socket::INET->new(Proto     => "udp")
                 or die "can't connect socket to port: $!";

    $host_port = $sock_r->sockport;
    print "Listening on host_port $host_port\n";

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2. Here is the entire datagram, where I sent from 186.1.238.176:32770 the message: "Ftest 01234 4" to 186.1.228.4:5152. The command line and contents of the UDP payload are below, the datagram appears to be ASCII encoded data. 
   print $sock_w "test 01234 $test";

00 08 74 4A 64 A0 00 02 FD B1 41 C2 08 00 45 00 ..tJd.....A...E.
00 28 A7 6B 40 00 3D 11 4F A1 BA 01 EE B0 BA 01 .(.k@.=.O.......
E4 04 80 02 14 20 00 14 98 46 74 65 73 74 20 30 ..... ...Ftest 0
31 32 33 34 20 34                               1234 4

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Should I be writing to the socket differently to send binary data? If so, what is the syntax?

In reply to Re: Re: UDP socket questions by sbrandt
in thread UDP socket questions by sbrandt

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