broadcast on lan?

Networking & Multiplayer
#1

how would i make the server broadcast the fact that it’s there onto the LAN?

:)thanks! :slight_smile:

#2

http://code.google.com/p/kryonet/source/browse/trunk/kryonet/src/com/esotericsoftware/kryonet/Client.java#435

#3

I believe deepthought was looking for line 408, the method broadcast()
However, what it basically does is connect to every IP address in your LAN with the specified port and checks if it gets any reply.

#4

:slight_smile: thank you guys, that looks like it’ll work for me. :slight_smile:

#5

There are specific mechanisms for broadcasting :wink:

Check this article: http://www.oser.org/~hp/ds/node27.html