Re: [Widelands-public] New networking code

[Josef S. <jo...@gg...>]

Am Freitag, 31. Dezember 2004 12:32 schrieb Stefan Boettner:
> In particular there was no way to send broadcast packets to all
> interfaces, which is required for discovery of open games in a local
> network.

In BSD there is getifaddrs() and I think most Linuxes support this too.

It would probably be a good idea to support Zeroconf and let it handle the 
game discovery. Howl and Rendezvous are usually used in Linux and MacOS 
systems, about Windows I don't know.

Josef

P.S. GGZ supports Zeroconf via Howl and it works quite well.
The GNOME network games use this as well.
Freeciv only supports broadcasts, this works for me but is not as flexible.

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