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PODoes Node.js still support UDP broadcasting?
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copied!<p>I called <code>dgram.setBroadcast(flag)</code> and it returned a <em>not yet implemented</em> error on Node.js version v0.6.3.</p> <p>Does Node.js still support UDP broadcasting? </p> <p><em>Edit: I found <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/c294ead91fde78e2?pli=1" rel="nofollow">some discussions</a> said that broadcast was removed in 0.5.x and probably be back in the future.</em></p> <p>still <strong>not</strong> yet implemented in <strong>v0.6.6</strong></p> <p>I tried 0.6.10 in windows 7 x64, the multicast did not work yet.</p> <pre><code>var dgram = require('dgram'); var PACKET_LEN = 64; var message = new Buffer(PACKET_LEN); var client = dgram.createSocket("udp4"); client.setMulticastTTL(128); //dgram.addMembership(multicastAddress, [multicastInterface]) client.addMembership('234.18.128.10', "172.18.128.64") ; // dgram.send(buf, offset, length, port, address, [callback]) client.send(message, 0, PACKET_LEN, 7000, "234.18.128.10"); client.close(); I got an "Error: addMembership EADDRNOTAVAIL". </code></pre> <p>after ref here: <strong>https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/test/simple/test-dgram-multicast-multi-process.js</strong> , I finally make multicast work on my windows pc. <br /> node ver=0.6.19</p> <pre><code>var dgram = require('dgram'); var message = new Buffer('this is my message'); var client = dgram.createSocket("udp4"); client.bind(); client.setBroadcast(true) client.setMulticastTTL(128); client.send(message, 0, message.length, 5007, "224.1.1.1"); client.close(); </code></pre>

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