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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Help please. Setting a host name innichestack

I am develping an application based on the Simple Socket Server example and it works fine with a static IP address. I want to use DHCP in the final design, but have a problem in that the only connect...
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16 years ago

Thank you all for your suggestions.

In the end I have decided on a UDP message solution.

My client at startup can now be prompted by the user to send out a small UDP broadcast packet on a known port. Any server of mine on the network will then report back its identity and the IP address is revealed :-)

The server code has been modified so that the server listens for the broadcast message in the same loop as it is waiting for a connection, which seems to work quite nicely.

Thanks again for the help.