Sending an IP Multicast Datagram Sample (Windows CE 5.0)
The following code sample shows how to send an IP multicast datagram.
#include <windows.h>
#include <winsock2.h>
#define DEST_MCAST "234.5.6.7"
#define DESTINATION_PORT 4567
#define SOURCE_PORT 0
int WINAPI WinMain (
HINSTANCE hInstance, // Handle to the current instance
HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,// Handle to the previous instance
LPTSTR lpCmdLine, // Pointer to the command line
int nCmdShow) // Show window state.
{
int iOptVal = 64;
char szMessage[] = "Multicasting message!";
// Sent message string
TCHAR szError[100]; // Error message string
SOCKET Sock = INVALID_SOCKET; // Datagram window socket
SOCKADDR_IN source_sin, // Source socket address
dest_sin; // Destination socket address
WSADATA WSAData; // Contains details of the
// Winsock implementation
// Initialize Winsock.
if (WSAStartup (MAKEWORD(1,1), &WSAData) != 0)
{
wsprintf (szError, TEXT("WSAStartup failed! Error: %d"),
WSAGetLastError ());
MessageBox (NULL, szError, TEXT("Error"), MB_OK);
return FALSE;
}
// Create a datagram window socket, Sock.
if ((Sock = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) == INVALID_SOCKET)
{
wsprintf (szError, TEXT("Allocating socket failed! Error: %d"),
WSAGetLastError ());
MessageBox (NULL, szError, TEXT("Error"), MB_OK);
return FALSE;
}
// Fill out source socket's address information.
source_sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
source_sin.sin_port = htons (SOURCE_PORT);
source_sin.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl (INADDR_ANY);
// Associate the source socket's address with the socket, Sock.
if (bind (Sock,
(struct sockaddr FAR *) &source_sin,
sizeof (source_sin)) == SOCKET_ERROR)
{
wsprintf (szError, TEXT("Binding socket failed! Error: %d"),
WSAGetLastError ());
MessageBox (NULL, szError, TEXT("Error"), MB_OK);
closesocket (Sock);
return FALSE;
}
// Set the Time-to-Live of the multicast.
if (setsockopt (Sock,
IPPROTO_IP,
IP_MULTICAST_TTL,
(char FAR *)&iOptVal,
sizeof (int)) == SOCKET_ERROR)
{
wsprintf (szError, TEXT("setsockopt failed! Error: %d"),
WSAGetLastError ());
MessageBox (NULL, szError, TEXT("Error"), MB_OK);
closesocket (Sock);
return FALSE;
}
// Fill out the desination socket's address information.
dest_sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
dest_sin.sin_port = htons (DESTINATION_PORT);
dest_sin.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr (DEST_MCAST);
// Send a message to the multicasting address.
if (sendto (Sock,
szMessage,
strlen (szMessage) + 1,
0,
(struct sockaddr FAR *) &dest_sin,
sizeof (dest_sin)) == SOCKET_ERROR)
{
wsprintf (szError, TEXT("sendto failed! Error: %d"),
WSAGetLastError ());
MessageBox (NULL, szError, TEXT("Error"), MB_OK);
closesocket (Sock);
return FALSE;
}
else
MessageBox (NULL, TEXT("Sending data succeeded!"), TEXT("Info"),
MB_OK);
// Disable sending on Sock before closing it.
shutdown (Sock, 0x01);
// Close Sock.
closesocket (Sock);
WSACleanup ();
return TRUE;
}
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