[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6707) Announce server on LAN

["andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

><URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6707 >
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>Here's an updated version of the LAN announcement patch.
>
>The current code works in the following platforms:
>SuSE Linux 8.2, NetBSD 1.6, SunOS 5.9 and Ms Windows (Cygwin).
>
>I think it now is portable to most platforms supported by Freeciv,
>however, to be on the safe side, a autoconf test for IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP
>can be added, since some very old platforms doesn't support multicasting.
>I don't know how to add such a test to autoconf, and I haven't found
>something like this anywhere with google. (I suspect that an OS without
>multicasting isn't able to compile the rest of Freeciv anyway...)
>
>>From the previous discussion of which multicasting group to use,
>I set the default multicast group back to 225.0.0.1. Only servers
>that have joined this group responds to requests from clients. No
>root-access is required, and no setup has to be done to join this
>multicast group. This is supported on all platforms that I have tested.
>
>I've also fixed the other problems reported by Raimar, except
>"GUI code can be unified more". Could you be a bit more specific? I don't
>know how to do this, without rewriting the metaserver list also.
>
> Andreas Røsdal
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>
Ops, wrong version. Here's the correct one...

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