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Tag: cross-platform

Why doesn’t windows desktop broadcast UDP?

Alright, so my application is a peer to peer chat application, designed for LAN communication. Discovery is done by UDP broadcasting the ip & port at the UDP broadcast address (255.255.255.255). I’m running it on three platforms at once when testing: ubuntu (VM via VirtualBox, and it’s connected to the network via VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter), windows 10 (my development

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