Shared UDP
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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 :
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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 -
This is similar to socket address reuse. On Windows this is ignored. Also why do you want the same port# your client sockets ?
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You can't bind same port several times on same machine.