Re: Crypto Coding Project - TCP broadcasts won't work for chat.

proff@iq.org
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 16:23:18 +1000 (EST)

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> Must be. If I recall correctly, the topic was about building a chat program.
> If you use TCP broadcasts, you've two choices: 255.255.255.255 which will
> certainly be filtered by your router, or direct broadcasts which will be sent
> to the broadcast address of that net.
[...] blah

TCP doesn't do broadcasts and never will. Talking about netmasks
won't encourage it. It's a windowed handshaking protocol.

Cheers,
Julian.

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