Broadcast socket bind on Windows; '<broadcast>' or ''

[Jp Calderone]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:47:40PM -0500, Jp Calderone wrote:
> 
>   Binding to <broadcast> is the same as binding to '255.255.255.255' on
> Linux, while binding to '' is the same as binding to '0.0.0.0' (in some
> systems, there is no difference between these two addresses).  The string
> "<broadcast>" is not part of any kind of standard, though.  Your best bet is
> to bind to '255.255.255.255', then use setsockopt() to enable SO_BROADCAST.
> 

  Ahh, I should have looked at the Python docs :P  "<broadcast>" is in fact
defined by Python to be the same as INADDR_BROADCAST.  So I too am curious
why it does not work on Windows.

>   Jp
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