I changed the protocol to UDP in the broadcast program and it ran and didn't give me an error or anything. But then when I changed the protocol on the listener to UDP, it kept crashing. I removed the "Listen => 1" and it would run but do nothing.

Here's the code for the listener:

    use IO::Socket; 
    
    my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET (
        LocalHost => '172.16.7.101',
        LocalPort => '7070',
        Proto => 'udp',
#        Listen => 1,
        Reuse => 1, 8 );
    die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock;

    my $new_sock = $sock->accept();
    while(<$new_sock>) {
        print $_;
    }
    close($sock);

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So I take it I need to change something to be able to listen on a UDP socket?

In reply to Re^2: How Do I Do an IP Broadcast in Perl? by HalNineThousand
in thread How Do I Do an IP Broadcast in Perl? by HalNineThousand

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