Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multi-window display

[John W. <ca...@mm...>]

> I have had this working many times, however, I"ve not managed to get
> it to work with broadcast.  The plib net module supports <broadcast>
> as a destination machine so at some point I'd like to convert to using
> that for the underlying network layer.
>
> Regards,
>
> Curt.

Normally, broadcast msgs are NOT passed along by a gateway so one needs to
be sure they are on the same local net. (I don't think this would be a
problem for
a multi-window configuration unless you have a really weird LAN(s) setup)

 Wondered if running with Windows was a problem using UDP, but I've been
able to
 broadcast and receive with UDP/IP with fgfs as the client. TCP is a
connection
oriented service and not suitable for this approach, but UDP is ideal. Just
bang
out the data as fast as you can. If you miss one the next "bus datagram" is
on it's
way

I should have mentioned I was running under Windows, not Linux. Might it be
an
OS problem related to kernel services? I need to move over to Linux, but
just hate
all the fuss doing it.

I'll poke at it some more.

Regards
Jack W.