OpenEuphoria

Re: Quick Sockets Question

• Posted by Roderick Jackson <rjackson at CSIWEB.COM> Dec 04, 1999
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Pete Eberlein wrote:
>I've got some Linux based Euphoria socket code that uses tcp.

Is that the code where you call functions across
a network? I'll be sure to look into it.

>You need to know the broadcast address for your local area net.  This is
>usually the subnet address bitwise-or'ed with the bitwise-not of the subnet
>mask.  For example, if your subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 and your ip address
>is 100.100.100.100, the broadcast address is probably 100.100.100.255.

Thanks. I don't suppose there's a way to determine this mask
value through code? Getting the local address I can do...

BTW -- I'll be sure to look at Brian's code as well, it might
already demonstrate how to do this.


Rod Jackson