Shared UDP

[Arnaud-DUTARTRE]

Hello,

I am developing a client/server application.

Clients find the server with a broadcast and the server answer on a specific port.

Clients could be multiple on the same platform and the creation of the socket is done this way :
@
mUDPIn->bind(QHostAddress::Any, UDP_IN_PORT, QAbstractSocket::ShareAddress);
@

The first client is able to bind but the second is not: The error indicated that the address is already linked. It prevents from having shared connection on same port.

So it seems the parameter QAbstractSocket::ShareAddress is not working.

I have seen a discussion about it starting in September 2013 but did not see any feedback and the bug report is not managed.

Could you confirm it is not working or indicates a workaround ?

Best regards
Arnaud

[dheerendra]

This is similar to socket address reuse. On Windows this is ignored. Also why do you want the same port# your client sockets ?

[qxoz]

You can't bind same port several times on same machine.