Example UDP Broadcast

UDP – Broadcast

UDP broadcast is a technique that allows sending UDP datagram from a single source to all computers in a LAN. In order to send a UDP datagram addressed to all computers in the local area network it needs to be sent to a special address called the Broadcast address. The broadcast address for a LAN is either the highest address in the local subnetwork or the universal broadcast address: 255.255.255.255. In order to receive broadcast messages the receiver needs to enable SO_BROADCAST option on the socket (see bellow)

UDP Broadcast Sender

UDP Receiver

#include"winsock2.h"

#include<iostream>

#include<conio.h>

using namespace std;

#define MYPORT 9009 // the port users will be connecting to

int main()

{

WSADATA wsaData;

WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2), &wsaData);

SOCKET sock;

sock = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM,0);

char broadcast = '1';

if(setsockopt(sock,SOL_SOCKET,SO_BROADCAST,&broadcast,sizeof(broadcast)) < 0)

{

cout<<"Error in setting Broadcast option";

closesocket(sock);

return 0;

}

struct sockaddr_in Recv_addr;

struct sockaddr_in Sender_addr;

int len = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);

char sendMSG[] ="Broadcast message from SLAVE TAG";

char recvbuff[50] = "";

int recvbufflen = 50;

Recv_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;

Recv_addr.sin_port = htons(MYPORT);

// Recv_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_BROADCAST; // this isq equiv to 255.255.255.255

// better use subnet broadcast (for our subnet is 172.30.255.255)

Recv_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("172.30.255.255");

sendto(sock,sendMSG,strlen(sendMSG)+1,0,(sockaddr *)&Recv_addr,sizeof(Recv_addr));

recvfrom(sock,recvbuff,recvbufflen,0,(sockaddr *)&Recv_addr,&len);

cout<<"\n\n\tReceived message from Reader is => "<<recvbuff;

cout<<"\n\n\tpress any key to CONT...";

_getch();

closesocket(sock);

WSACleanup();

}

#include"winsock2.h"

#include<iostream>

#include<conio.h>

using namespace std;

#define MYPORT 9009 // the port users will be connecting to

int main()

{

WSADATA wsaData;

WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2), &wsaData);

SOCKET sock;

sock = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM,0);

char broadcast = '1';

// This option is needed on the socket in order to be able to receive broadcast messages

// If not set the receiver will not receive broadcast messages in the local network.

if(setsockopt(sock,SOL_SOCKET,SO_BROADCAST,&broadcast,sizeof(broadcast)) < 0)

{

cout<<"Error in setting Broadcast option";

closesocket(sock);

return 0;

}

struct sockaddr_in Recv_addr;

struct sockaddr_in Sender_addr;

int len = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);

char recvbuff[50];

int recvbufflen = 50;

char sendMSG[]= "Broadcast message from READER";

Recv_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;

Recv_addr.sin_port = htons(MYPORT);

Recv_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;

if (bind(sock,(sockaddr*)&Recv_addr, sizeof (Recv_addr)) < 0)

{

cout<<"Error in BINDING"<<WSAGetLastError();

_getch();

closesocket(sock);

return 0;

}

recvfrom(sock,recvbuff,recvbufflen,0,(sockaddr *)&Sender_addr,&len);

cout<<"\n\n\tReceived Message is : "<<recvbuff;

cout<<"\n\n\tPress Any to send message";

_getch();

if(sendto(sock,sendMSG,strlen(sendMSG)+1,0,(sockaddr *)&Sender_addr,sizeof(Sender_addr)) < 0)

{

cout<<"Error in Sending."<<WSAGetLastError();

cout<<"\n\n\t\t Press any key to continue....";

_getch();

closesocket(sock);

return 0;

}

else

cout<<"\n\n\n\tREADER sends the broadcast message Successfully";

cout<<"\n\n\tpress any key to CONT...";

_getch();

closesocket(sock);

WSACleanup();

}