Hi,
I have a [netsend 1] (which is UDP) and I connect it to 127.0.0.1:5555 to send UDP packets to the localhost, port 5555.
If there's an application listening to that port everything's fine.
However, if nobody is listening, the [netsend] object consistently disconnects (or at least detects disconnection) as soon as I send the second message.
With UDP, it shouldn't be necessary that the recipient is listening. Indeed, there is no "connection" whatsoever, packets should just be lost or received.
I've also tried with the machine's ip instead of loopback with the same result.
I had been doing this on Windows for years and it used to work. Why is it that it doesn't work on linux?
I don't know if it is because in windows I usually used broadcast addresses, which I cannot use in Linux because they don't work in Pd. However it shouldn't make any difference: even with a specific address, the receiver doesn't need to be listening in order to send it UDP packets, does it??
Is there any trick I can do in order to have [netsend] keep sending packets regardless of the receiver listening or not?
Thanks m.