Elysian Shadows

This is probably going to be a stupid question, but when your making a multicasting application, how do you decide what address to use?

What

what exactly do you mean by multicasting? it's not a term I'm familiar with, and I'm fairly certain most here aren't.

I think he means broadcasting to an entire network..Don't know much about networking though, so I can't help... sorry

I don't know about other languages, but in c# you use a multicast group IP address.

So far what I know about it, is that a couple computers join a group, and when one sends a packet, they all get the packet. Its less reliable than TCP. I think (?) its called UDP. I just don't know what to set the address to? Do I just make one up or find it somewhere?

ajtgarber wrote:So far what I know about it, is that a couple computers join a group, and when one sends a packet, they all get the packet. Its less reliable than TCP. I think (?) its called UDP. I just don't know what to set the address to? Do I just make one up or find it somewhere?

I suggest you hit the webs and the books hard

Yeah... probably going to have to hit the glowing tome again...

adikid89 wrote:I think he means broadcasting to an entire network..Don't know much about networking though, so I can't help... sorry

Multicast means send to group of hosts on network, and broadcast means send to all hosts on network.