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Finding games over a LAN via WinSock
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In my multiplayer game I have it working fine if you enter the IP of the server but DirectPlay has the ability to ''search for local games'' in TCP/IP over a LAN. Does anyone know how to accomplish this with WinSock 2.x?
Just create a socket to listen to the broadcast address for the subnet that the computer is on. Then the game server sends packets to the broadcast address.
The client broadcasts a UDP packet and then the server responds. We don''t want the server wasting network bandwidth broadcasting continuously if there are not clients interested in connecting.
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