[OT, Q] Architecture for Message Broadcasting

Herbert König herbertkoenig at gmx.net
Mon Jul 2 10:38:41 UTC 2007


Hello S.J.Chun,


SJC> I'm currently thinking of create a simple TCP server which receives
SJC> message - message will be single line - then iterate over connected
SJC> sockets to send message to them.

Afaik broadcast is one single send and everybody listens.

IIRC a special broadcasting address is used where everybody listens.

I never done TCP myself but it feels very wrong to to resend the same
message for each receiver.

Cheers


Herbert                            mailto:herbertkoenig at gmx.net




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