First of all, please don't delete your original post. The thread will make little sense in the future without it.

Second of all, you again have a datagram vs. stream problem. The connect() is to connect to a TCP server, but you are running a UDP server. A UDP client just creates the socket and starts sending.

This may help: http://www.prasannatech.net/2008/07/socket-programming-tutorial.html This gentleman has provided simple examples of TCP and UDP servers and clients in C, Perl, Python, and Java.