Re: Frustrated Tester with xPL and winamp

["Jared" <progect@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ipconfig /all does of course give me my subnet mask.
However, in my case the netmask is 255.255.255.0
My assumption, and I'm guessing yours is that the broadcast would be
a.b.c.255.  a,b,c each being the respective class numbers for the
public network.

However, dispite my subnet mask, my IP address is in a class B network
range, so the broadcast to get winamp working was a.b.255.255.  That
seems odd to me, and it makes me wonder if xPLHal is setting up based
upon the network class or is actually looking at the subnet mask
before deciding what broadcast to use??  (I haven't studied this for
about eight years, so I'm way over my head on how this actually works
out in application space today.)

Tony, if I'm going to use loopback on one machine (127.0.0.1) do I
need to set this in xPLHal somewhere?  And what broadcast would I use
in winamp?  I briefly tried this yesterday and didn't get anywhere.

Jared


--- In ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx, "Tony Tofts" <tony@x> wrote:
> > At work I'm on a public IP address and I'm not sure if the
> > broadcast is a.b.c.255 or a.b.255.255 or if the network is
> > hacked differently.
>
> The status of your local area connection (ipconfig /all) should tell
you
> what the netmask is for your public ip, from this you can work out the
> broadcast address
>
> Normally broadcasts don't propogate over the internet (public ip
addresses),
> routers along the way somewhere will block it. It all depends on where
> everything is located. If you're running it all on your local pc, that
> happens to have a public ip, try using the loopback address and
broadcast
> address instead...
>
> Regards
> Tony