[offtopic?] problem with UDP broadcast on Windows XP

[Steve Holden]

Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
>  "Irmen de Jong" <i..n.NOSPAM at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>>
>>> Try running the service impersonating another user (not LOCAL_SERVICE, 
>>> the default).
>>> You can change that from the service control panel.
>> Alas, that didn't change anything.
>> I made it run as a user account that has admin privileges even,
>> and it still doesn't respond to the broadcasts.  :-(
>>
> 
> I am not sure if this is at all relevant - but I seem to recall seeing
> something once that had a list of socket numbers, splitting them 
> between UDP & TCP - can the socket actually rx UDP?
> 
That's probably a red herring, Hendrik. Both UDP and TCP define ports 
from 1 through 65535, and so a port number doesn't "belong" to one 
protocol or the other.

It's most likely, I suspect without knowing to much about it, that the 
service is stalling because of a failure to "pump" Windows messages. 
Irmen, are you taking any action in your service to ignore Windows 
messages that your service process receives?

regards
  Steve
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