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7.43 udpbroadcast

Authors

Andrew Howard ahoward(at)usc.edu,Brian P. Gerkey gerkey(at)stanford.edu

Synopsis

The udpbroadcast driver provides a mechanism whereby Player clients can communicate with other Player clients, even when those clients are connected to different Player servers. Any message sent to a udpbroadcast device will be received by all udpbroadcast devices that are on the same physical network (including the sending device). The underlying transport mechanism is based on broadcast UDP sockets (see Notes below).

Interfaces

Supported interfaces:

Required devices:

Supported configuration requests:

Configuration file options

Name Type Default Meaning
addr string "10.255.255.255" The broadcast address to be used.
port integer 6013 The broadcast port to be used.

Notes


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2004-06-02