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Re: Finding broadcast address

• Posted by codepilot Gmail Account <codepilot at gmail.com> Apr 28, 2005
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The subment is in winsock somewhere I think, but I don't remember

On 4/26/05, MrTrick <guest at rapideuphoria.com> wrote:
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> posted by: MrTrick <mistertrik at hotmail.com>
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> I want to broadcast messages to my local subnet. I know that if
> the IP address is (for example) 10.42.97.5 and the subnet is
> 255.255.255.0, the broadcast address is 10.42.97.255.
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> I guess the formula is broadcast_addr = ip_addr OR (NOT subnet_addr)
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> How though, do I find what the subnet address is? I suppose I could
> system call 'ipconfig > ip.txt' and parse the text file, but does anythin=
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> neater than that exist? I've looked on the MSDN site, but their search sy=
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> is not very useful.
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> (This is on a windows box)
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