Re: Best approach for broadcasting a notifivation to another progr

I think that normally routers block all broadcasts by default, unless
otherwise configured. If there are 2 subnets in the same internal network,
I have found that many admins will allow broadcasts between them (at least
in my world this has been the case) because there are applications that rely
on them. I like Bob's idea, when the server starts, you can have it
'signon' to the db by adding it's ip and maybe a heartbeat time to a table.
Then when the client starts, it can check that table for the servers that
are online, and send messages there.

As for the Terminal server issue, I don't know how that would do. I have
never tried it. and I don't really have a terminal server setup here other
then for admin. If you do try it out, I would love to hear if it works or
not though.


"John Austin" <John.Austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have hit on a snag. I would really like to have one broadcaster and the
possibility of multiple receivers. I imagine that this will work just fine
until more than one of the 'receivers' are clients on the same terminal
server. Both TS clients will then be trying to listen on the same port of
the
TS IP address which I presume will not work. Can anyone think of a way
around
this problem? Also on the matter of routers, do all routers normally block
all broadcasts? I have a customer that has two subnets joined by Cisco pix
routers and a VPN connection. If only the zeroes in the subnet are
replaced
by 255 in the broadcast, would that help, or are all '255' entries
normally
blocked?

Thanks
--
John Austin


"Bob Butler" wrote:

"Lance Wynn" <LanceWynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Right, in his original post, he mentioned the machines are on the same
subnet.

understood, just wanted to emphasize that that was now a requirement




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