Ok, how should I approach this using UDP?
-Eric
"Francois PIETTE [ICS - MidWare]" <francois.piette@overbyte.be> wrote:
>TCP doesn't support broadcast nor multicast. Only UDP do.
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>"eric" <eric@example.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
>4475c510$2@newsgroups.borland.com...
>>
>> I am designing a system which will communicate with a number of
>> clients over a local wireless connection. The number of clients
>> could number into the 100s. The data I need to send to the
>> clients is rather large and could reach into the 100s of
>> megabytes.
>>
>> I have a similar system that communicates over a radio network.
>> In this system, I blast out the data and afterwards query each
>> device for what packets are still required. Systems which are
>> not asking for a particular packet keep it if needed or iginore
>> it if they already have it.
>>
>> Using TCP, what is the prefered method to handle a situation like
>> above so that data can be broadcasted rather then a unique
>> transfer to each device?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
