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14 years ago

WORKING: DE2-115 Simple Socket Server

Hi, It seems difficult to get help on these forums so I want to pass on what i learnt for others. I've struggled to learn FPGAs over the past few weeks and I have finally got a simple socket s...
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13 years ago

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If you are wanting to send UDP messages, then you need to change your type to SOCK_DGRAM and the protocol (last parameter) to IPPROTO_UDP in your socket call. Once you have the type and protocol set for UDP, then your recvfrom() call should block until data is ready on the fd.

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Thank you lornewellington

can you please give us more details how to implement an UDP application ?

what I have to change ? only the simple_socket_server.c file ?

and what can of trandfert can be done with the udp ?

many thanks in advance